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Learning Coach $120,000 USD/year
Description
An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her want to. Closing that gap is your work.
At Alpha, students in grades K–3 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten and 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd and 3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, rhythm, and workshop delivery to match that band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. Half of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and how to give and receive feedback. A structured playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role customize it for their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half of your time is devoted to sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding each child toward completing 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates the trust that allows you to push. Pushing communicates your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three measures and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the opportunity opens to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum with no adaptation required, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not the right fit. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on circle time, camp counseling for young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to fit your cohort rather than delivering it as written.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app targets, drawing on Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you have established with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved.
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and playfulness, while maintaining clear, quantifiable expectations for second and third graders.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.
What you will NOT be doing
- Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to bring it to life.
- Watching over children as they use computers. Motivation in this context is hands-on, individualized, and persistent.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it. When a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the goal.
- Correcting homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.
Key responsibilities
Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.
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