Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin 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 supportive action you can take for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-driven applications for two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — top performers in this position adapt them to their student group and create new sessions when gaps appear. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are essential tools for sustaining attention long enough to teach anything. Warmth creates the foundation for you to challenge them. Challenge demonstrates your belief in their capability.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means falling short of the role's purpose. During your first year you will master the operational framework; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold expectations, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with children.

If you prefer conventional teaching methods, need curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have experience as 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 capable of commanding 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, submit your application 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 transferable skills
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students on track for weekly app targets, 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, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level through songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, quantifiable 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
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures from the whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Developing curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the operational framework and you execute it
• Passively monitoring kids at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest do not exist in this model
  
  

Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of 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 subject
• Minimum of 3 years working directly 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 objective, your approach, and the result
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver 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 defined objectives
• Personal background of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is ingrained, not performative
• Natural performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physical engagement
• History of 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-EarlyChildhood1