Educator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, plus 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 support available
  
  

Your role is to motivate, not teach.

When a six-year-old reaches 99% of their goal, the most supportive response is to refuse to call it complete. If that principle unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because you know that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, K-3 students complete their academic work through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop approach to fit that band. There are no lectures or worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective Guides customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps emerge. During the remaining half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not optional additions; they are the means by which you sustain attention long enough to deliver any lesson. Warmth gives you the credibility to challenge them. 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 falling short of the role. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with children.

If you are drawn to traditional teaching, prefer a pre-packaged curriculum, or believe warmth and rigor are incompatible, this position is not a fit. If you have experience as 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 who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach 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 cohorts of 10-15 K-3 students, covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
• Conducting daily 1:1 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 individual relationships you build 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
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable expectations
• 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 than their best
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures from a whiteboard; academic content is housed in the apps, not delivered by you
• Building curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and continuous
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not lower the standard
• Grading homework, administering standardized test preparation, or managing parent communications; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest do not exist in this environment
  
  

Educator Key Responsibilities

Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of 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 provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Available to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Comfortable allowing 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

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori or progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goals
• History of high personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance
• Natural performer's presence with young children—the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and physicality
• Demonstrated success turning 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-RoundRoc-Educator.006