What are the responsibilities and job description for the Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
The curriculum is already designed. The AI has been programmed to deliver instruction. Your role is to help a child see they're capable of accomplishing something they never imagined they could.
Alpha students finish their academic coursework in only two hours each day, powered by adaptive learning systems. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to what truly transforms lives: cultivating confidence, perseverance, communication skills, and the determination to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be positioned at the front of a room delivering prepared lessons. Instead, you'll be coaching students as they navigate obstacles, acknowledging their progress, and demonstrating what rigorous expectations look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves individualized and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every student advances toward challenging weekly objectives. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with enhanced capabilities and finish your coaching sessions with expanded belief in what they can accomplish.
This position isn't designed for someone seeking to implement curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's intended for someone who finds joy in inspiring young children, excels when outcomes are measurable, and holds the conviction that the right mentor can shift a child's entire path. If you've motivated children as an educator, athletic coach, camp director, youth mentor, or entertainer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of learning environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. We conduct nationwide recruitment, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without an active campus.
Current vacancies exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.
If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably reach ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary school.
Basic Requirements
Join the team building school around student growth
Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.
Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.
Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.
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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Chantill-EarlyChildhood
Alpha students finish their academic coursework in only two hours each day, powered by adaptive learning systems. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to what truly transforms lives: cultivating confidence, perseverance, communication skills, and the determination to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be positioned at the front of a room delivering prepared lessons. Instead, you'll be coaching students as they navigate obstacles, acknowledging their progress, and demonstrating what rigorous expectations look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves individualized and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every student advances toward challenging weekly objectives. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with enhanced capabilities and finish your coaching sessions with expanded belief in what they can accomplish.
This position isn't designed for someone seeking to implement curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's intended for someone who finds joy in inspiring young children, excels when outcomes are measurable, and holds the conviction that the right mentor can shift a child's entire path. If you've motivated children as an educator, athletic coach, camp director, youth mentor, or entertainer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of learning environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. We conduct nationwide recruitment, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without an active campus.
Current vacancies exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.
If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitate compelling life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other foundational skills through hands-on engagement rather than passive listening.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, guiding students until they show genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
- Modify your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger students or greater autonomy and responsibility for older ones.
- Cultivate relationships in which students feel secure enough to push past the limits of what they believed they could do.
- Presenting academic material from a whiteboard. Students complete academics via adaptive software.
- Developing curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize established playbooks rather than creating lessons from nothing.
- Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is hands-on coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
- Reducing standards when students face difficulty. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the objective, not by adjusting the objective downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or conducting standard parent outreach.
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably reach ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary school.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA. Relocation assistance is available.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
- Experience leading group activities for young children, with a concrete example of the structure or routine you used and how you kept the group engaged.
- A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
- A concrete example of changing your approach based on feedback and the result.
- Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
- The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
- Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
- Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.
Join the team building school around student growth
Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.
Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.
Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.
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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Chantill-EarlyChildhood
Salary : $120,000