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

• $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
• On-site role 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 impactful thing you can do for a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it's not finished. If that expectation unsettles you, this role isn't for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.

At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academics through AI-driven applications over two hours daily. As a Guide, you oversee one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and customize your approach, tempo, and workshops to fit that group. There are no lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on topics like public speaking, concentration, and peer feedback. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective Guides modify them for their cohort and develop original content when needed. The remaining half of your day is spent in 1:1 sessions or small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding each student toward completing 100% of their weekly app objectives. With four- to six-year-olds, energy and playfulness aren't optional—they're essential tools for sustaining attention and enabling learning. Warmth creates the foundation for accountability. Accountability communicates that you believe they're capable.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role hasn't been fulfilled. In your first year, you internalize the operational framework; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold expectations, you may advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, need a pre-packaged curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position isn't the right fit. If you've thrived 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 who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and raw energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach 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-3 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to maintain momentum toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery assessment) for every life skill, and continuing to coach students who don't pass on their first attempt until they achieve mastery
• Engaging kindergarteners with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously maintaining rigorous, trackable expectations for second and third graders
• Serving as the warm, trusted adult children are excited to see at morning arrival AND the adult who won't allow them to settle for less than their best
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Developing curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the operational framework and you animate it
• Passively monitoring kids on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not lower the bar
• Grading assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the rest simply doesn't exist in this model
  
  

Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that 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
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (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 actions, and the result
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without 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) such that holding others to rigorous standards is an ingrained behavior, not a learned stance
• Natural performer's energy with young children—the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners using voice, playfulness, and physical presence
• Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into engaged, confident 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-5149-US-Surprise-EarlyChildhood1