Education Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage effective day one
• In-person role at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching position. This is motivation work.

The kindest thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because you know that maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity—read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. Approximately 30% of your time involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, examining their progress via Coachbot data, and driving each one toward their weekly application targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to analyzing data and translating findings into the next week's coaching strategy. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as frameworks, and top performers in this role modify them and create new ones when needed.

A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort reaches their weekly app targets, demonstrates measurable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and gives you a rating of 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three measures means falling short of the role. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to run your own cohort—and eventually Campus Lead, where you operate an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you prefer conventional teaching, need a fully prescribed curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this is the wrong fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final stage before an offer is a full on-campus day coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups on topics including public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, modifying the existing framework and creating new content when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivation tools (campus currency, performance rankings), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and working with students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners who require energetic, kinesthetic engagement to 8th graders who respond to direct conversation and personal accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are underperforming, and modifying your coaching tactics for the subsequent week based on what the metrics reveal
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard instruction; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating an entire program from scratch; you begin with an established framework and personalize it through your delivery and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this environment is proactive, individualized, and sustained
• Working through institutional approval processes to secure resources for underperforming students; when a student needs additional coaching, you decide and execute immediately
• Evaluating assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Education Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year expressing genuine appreciation for your impact.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp facilitation, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of pushing a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, competitive debate, camp direction, theater, or extracurricular programs where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated record of exceptional performance (academically, athletically, or professionally), such that maintaining rigorous expectations for others reflects your core approach rather than an adopted stance
• Communication and presentation skills sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without relying on volume or authority
• Proven ability to transform unmotivated or oppositional students into 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5607-US-Chicago-EducationCoach.014