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

• $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site position 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)
  
  

You do not deliver lessons. You drive motivation.

The kindest thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to say it isn't finished. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic work through AI-powered applications in two-hour blocks each day. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. Half of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective guides customize them for their group and create new ones when gaps emerge. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not supplementary; they are essential tools for maintaining attention long enough to teach effectively. Warmth creates the foundation that earns you permission to challenge. Challenging them demonstrates your confidence in their ability to succeed.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report positive feelings about you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role is not being fulfilled. During your first year you will master the established framework; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with children.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, need fully scripted curriculum, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as incompatible, this role will not suit you. If you have been 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 vocal presence, 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, concentration, feedback, and other foundational skills
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, utilizing Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have developed with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, physical movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders
• Serving as the warm 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 delivered through the applications, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it with energy
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this role 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
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Early Childhood Teacher Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and completes 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 assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 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
• Available to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Comfortable allowing AI to manage 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), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent trait, not an adopted stance
• Natural performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal presence, playfulness, and physical expression
• Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or resistant 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-Tampa-EarlyChildhood2.014