Academic Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site at Alpha's Houston, TX campus—choose from Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands (relocation assistance available)
• $100,000 annual salary, disbursed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
  
  

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this position won't be a fit. If it energizes you because you understand that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours using adaptive software—no lectures, no textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot provide: developing life competencies in Pre-K through 8th grade students, including public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. You'll spend half your time facilitating structured, hands-on workshops guided by established playbooks and narrative techniques. The remaining time involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress through Coachbot analytics within adaptive learning platforms, and driving them toward 100% completion of weekly objectives. Mastery is demonstrated through Test2Pass assessments, not participation metrics.

During your first year, you'll manage a dedicated student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's operational framework: life skill facilitation, motivational coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you consistently guide every student to full goal completion while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes accessible—a role where you develop other Guides while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective individuals in this position don't merely impact individual trajectories; they influence entire campus cultures.

If you've dedicated years to coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people while wishing you could eliminate instructional teaching and concentrate entirely on developmental growth, this represents that opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life competency workshops for Pre-K through 8th grade students covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback skills (project-based and experiential)
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions where you examine each student's adaptive learning app performance (via Coachbot analytics), establish objectives, and drive them toward 100% weekly target completion
• Overseeing and assessing Test2Pass evaluations to verify genuine mastery of each life skill, beyond simple participation
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from Pre-K learners requiring high energy and kinesthetic engagement to 8th graders needing direct communication and accountability
• Cultivating authentic connections with each student so they trust you sufficiently to receive coaching through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing lectures or traditional academic instruction (core academic content is delivered through adaptive applications, not by you)
• Creating lesson plans or curriculum materials independently (Alpha supplies structured life skills playbooks; you execute them with energy and narrative engagement)
• Handling parent communication or administrative operations (Campus Leads manage these areas; your focus remains on students)
• Evaluating homework or preparing students for standardized examinations (these elements don't exist in this model)
• Operating independently (you function within a collaborative campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and mutual accountability)
  
  

Academic Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student within your cohort develops enthusiasm for learning, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with Pre-K through 8th grade students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities)
• Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching Pre-K through 8th grade students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one concrete example you can articulate (including the goal, your specific actions, and measurable outcome)
• Daily engagement with generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Availability to work on-site at Alpha's Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands campus location (relocation assistance provided)
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, camp administration, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• History of exceptional personal achievement (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions demanding sustained excellence)
• Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room filled with 12-year-olds for an hour without increasing your volume
• Success motivating disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into active 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-5767-US-Houston-AcademicCoach.005