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

• $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site role 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 assistance available)
  
  

Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.

The kindest thing you can do for a six-year-old sitting at 99% of their goal is refuse to accept it as finished. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, 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.

Alpha students in grades K-2 complete their academics through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No traditional lessons. No paper worksheets. You will spend half your time facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. These workshops provide a foundation, not a rigid script — the most effective guides customize them for their group and create new content when needed. During the remaining half, you work with students individually or in small clusters, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not optional; they are the mechanisms through which you maintain attention long enough to accomplish real learning. Warmth creates the trust that allows you to challenge them. Challenge communicates your confidence in their ability to succeed.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for each life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. In your first year you will master the operational playbook; as you demonstrate consistent ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, want curriculum fully scripted for you, or believe warmth and rigorous expectations cannot coexist, this position will not be a fit. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at 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 stage 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 foundational competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, stories, physical movement, and humor, while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders
• 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 traditional whiteboard instruction; academic content is handled by the applications, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you animate it
• Passively monitoring kids at computer stations; motivation in this model is active, individualized, and persistent
• 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
• Marking homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks simply do not exist in this environment
  
  

Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of 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 assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• At least 3 years of direct experience working 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 goal itself, your approach, and the result
• Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Comfort with allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background 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 track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), making the maintenance of rigorous standards a natural pattern rather than an adopted stance
• Innate performer's presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated success transforming hesitant 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-Denver-EarlyChildhood1