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

• $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• 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 available)
  
  

You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate.

The most caring action you can take for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that expectation troubles you, this is not your role. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback processes. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — the most effective guides customize them for their group and create new ones when gaps appear. The remaining half involves sitting 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 the mechanisms through which you sustain attention long enough to teach anything. Warmth earns you the authority to challenge. Challenge demonstrates your confidence in their capacity.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job was not done. In your first year you internalize the system; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the opportunity opens to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional instruction, expect ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not suitable. If you've 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 step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect is what excites you most, apply 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 coaching sessions that maintain students' progress toward weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you've established with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, stories, movement, and play, while maintaining real, measurable 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 underperform
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not through you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can meet it; if a student falls behind, the solution is the student, not the standard
• Grading assignments, administering standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here
  
  

Early Childhood Teacher Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in 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 support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary instruction, 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 actions, and the result
• Able to participate in 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 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 goals
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance
• Natural performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and movement
• Demonstrated success 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-EarlyChildhood2