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

• $100,000 annual W2 salary, paid weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage from 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)
  
  

You do not deliver lessons. You inspire action.

The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to insist it's not finished. If that approach troubles you, this role isn't for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.

At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, tempo, and sessions to fit that band. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics like public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These sessions serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — the most effective Guides customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps emerge. The remaining half involves working 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 optional extras; they are the means by which you sustain attention long enough to teach anything. Warmth gives you the credibility to challenge. Challenge demonstrates your confidence in their abilities.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills session, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In your first year, you'll internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with children.

If you prefer conventional teaching methods, need a pre-built curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role won't suit you. If you've excelled as an early-elementary teacher who loved circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of captivating 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 excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for groups of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational skills
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep students on track for 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, and supporting students who don't pass until they achieve mastery
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, narratives, movement, and playfulness, while simultaneously holding second and third graders to concrete, measurable expectations
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at 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 embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you animate it
• Passively monitoring children at computers; coaching here is dynamic, personal, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach 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 outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don't exist in this model
  
  

Early Childhood Teacher 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 they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Available 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 field
• Minimum of 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary education, 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 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 accountability for motivating young children toward defined goals
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a natural behavior, not an adopted stance
• Innate performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into confident, engaged 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-Phoenix-EarlyChildhood2