Educator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits start on 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 thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to call it finished. If that standard creates discomfort for you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener, continue reading.

At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours per day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the exchange of feedback. Workshops serve as a foundation, not a rigid script — high performers in this role customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps exist. The other half is spent sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child to 100% of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplemental; they are the mechanisms by which you sustain attention long enough to teach. Warmth gives you the authority to demand more. Demanding more shows them you know they are capable.

A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In year one you internalize the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to work directly with children.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect to be given a curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for 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 voice, play, and raw energy, the final stage before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that 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 on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that ensure students stay on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you have developed with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures from the whiteboard; academic instruction is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it
• Passively supervising children at computers; motivation in this role is active, personalized, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; if a student is falling behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading homework, administering standardized test prep, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this environment
  
  

Educator Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes 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 support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working 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 difficult 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 visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience 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 background of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining high standards for others is ingrained, not adopted
• Natural performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physical presence
• History of transforming hesitant 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-Elgin-Educator.009