2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha campus across 13 US locations in CA, CT, FL, IL, and MA (complete list provided below; relocation assistance available)
  
  

AI can teach a six-year-old to decode words. It cannot teach her to care about doing so. Closing that gap is your responsibility.

Alpha students in grades K–2 complete academic work through AI-powered applications during a two-hour daily block. No teacher-led lessons. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. A structured playbook is provided, but top performers modify it for their cohort and create new activities when the playbook falls short. The remaining half of your day is spent working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth builds the trust that allows you to challenge them. Challenge proves you believe in their capability.

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. Fall short on any of those three metrics and you have not fulfilled the role. During your first year you internalize the playbook; after demonstrating you can maintain standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you are drawn to conventional teaching, prefer ready-made curriculum with no adaptation, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills, customizing the playbook for your students rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to ensure every student remains on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you have established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second 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 Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lessons from the whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and your role is to animate it.
• Passively monitoring children at computers. Motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it. When a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the goal.
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test prep, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.
  
  

2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic 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, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (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 actions, and the result.
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to maintain high expectations for students even when they resist.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring 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 defined goals.
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to demanding standards is ingrained, not performative.
• Natural performer's energy with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physical engagement.
• Proven ability to transform timid 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5634-US-Miami-2ndGradeTeache.004