2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
  
  

You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate.

The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because upholding standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, K-2 students complete their academic work through AI-powered applications in two hours per day. No lectures. No worksheets. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — the strongest performers in this role customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps emerge. During the other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are the mechanisms through which you maintain attention long enough to accomplish anything. Warmth grants you permission to challenge. Challenge demonstrates your belief in their capacity.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job is not being done. In your first year you will master the operational model; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the pathway opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to work directly with children.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect curriculum to be handed to you unchanged, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and pure energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-2 students covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep students on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you have established with each child
• Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while simultaneously holding first and second graders accountable to concrete, measurable standards
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures from the front of the room; academic instruction occurs within the apps, not through direct teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
• Monitoring children at computer stations; motivation in this environment is active, interpersonal, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the goal
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
  
  

2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your approach, and the result
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward specific objectives
• Personal background of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance
• Natural performer's presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and movement
• Demonstrated success in transforming shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants
  
  

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5149-US-SaltLake-2ndGradeTeache