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

• $100,000 annual W2 compensation distributed weekly, plus health, dental, and vision coverage beginning day one
• Position based on-site at an Alpha campus location: 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 response to a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.

Alpha's K-2 learners complete academics through AI-driven applications during two hours each day. No traditional instruction. No paper assignments. Half your time is devoted to facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics including public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These sessions serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — top performers tailor them to their group and create new content when gaps emerge. The remaining half involves sitting with individual students or small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding each child toward completing 100% of weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not supplementary; they are the foundation for sustaining attention and enabling learning. Building rapport earns you permission to challenge. Challenge demonstrates your confidence in their capability.

A successful quarter means every student completes weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills sessions, and 90% or more report they love you. Falling short on any single metric means the role is not being fulfilled. During your first year you internalize the model; as you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new team members while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect fully developed curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as contradictory, this position will not suit you. If you have thrived as an early-elementary educator who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a coach for youth sports, a performer in children's theater, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and sheer presence, the final stage before an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for groups of 10-15 K-2 learners covering public speaking, concentration, feedback practices, and other foundational competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching conversations that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, informed by Coachbot data, Alpha's motivation structures (campus currency, performance rankings), and the personal connection established with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level through music, narrative, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously holding first and second graders accountable to concrete, trackable expectations
• Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their best
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at the board; academic content is housed within the applications, not delivered by you
• Developing curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
• Passively monitoring children on devices; motivation in this environment is direct, individualized, and continuous
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the standard
• Evaluating homework, facilitating standardized exam preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 group completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting 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 subject
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 8 (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
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's performance arts, camp program leadership, Montessori or progressive early childhood education, or enrichment programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined objectives
• History of personal achievement (academic, athletic, or career-related) that makes holding others to rigorous standards a natural tendency rather than an adopted stance
• Innate performer's energy with young children — capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated success converting hesitant or reluctant young learners into engaged, confident contributors
  
  

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-Miami-2ndGradeTeache