What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- Based in-person in Houston, TX (we provide relocation support)
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Your role covers what technology cannot: coaching students from Pre-K through 8th grade in life skills including public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll spend half your time facilitating hands-on workshops using structured guides and narrative techniques. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, examining their adaptive learning progress through Coachbot analytics, and driving them toward 100% completion of weekly objectives. Mastery is demonstrated through Test2Pass assessments, not participation metrics.
During your first year, you'll oversee a student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivational coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate consistent ability to hold every student to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you develop other Guides while remaining engaged directly with students. The most effective people in this position don't merely transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
If you've dedicated years to coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and have wished you could eliminate traditional instruction to concentrate on their genuine development, this is that opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for Pre-K–8 students covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback exchange (hands-on and project-oriented)
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions where you examine each student's adaptive learning progress (via Coachbot analytics), establish objectives, and drive them toward 100% completion of weekly targets
- Overseeing and evaluating Test2Pass assessments to verify students have genuinely mastered each life skill, beyond simple participation
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from Pre-K students requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
- Cultivating authentic relationships with each student so they trust you sufficiently to receive coaching through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
- Delivering lectures or traditional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through adaptive applications, not from you)
- Creating lesson plans or curriculum independently (Alpha supplies life skills playbooks; your responsibility is to animate them with energy and narrative)
- Handling parent communications or administrative school functions (Campus Leads manage those areas; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Evaluating homework or overseeing standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you're integrated into a campus team with Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, masters critical life skills, and achieves 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning software.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3 years of direct experience working with Pre-K–8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program management)
- Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching Pre-K–8 students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one concrete example you can articulate (the objective, your actions, and the result)
- Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Available to work in-person at Alpha's Houston, TX campus (relocation assistance provided)
- Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
- Background in youth sports coaching, camp coordination, or after-school program management where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward specific objectives
- History of significant personal achievement (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions requiring sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
- Experience motivating disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into engaged participants
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
Salary : $100,000