What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructional Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site role at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000 annual full-time salary, distributed weekly
- Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- Support for relocation available
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning model integrates AI-adaptive software with skilled human teaching. Students progress through academic material independently using personalized applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing guides. Your responsibility centers on the irreplaceable human element: small-group reading workshops where you create and implement structured literacy instruction matched to each student's phonics and decoding stage. You will leverage real-time AI-generated performance analytics to structure each session, make immediate adjustments, and track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy growth, and decoding progress.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that sustain K-2 students' engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their coach, their advocate, the individual who recognizes their name, their passions, and precisely where they stand in their reading development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90% evaluate their Guide as someone they enjoy working with. This is not about curriculum coverage; it concerns measurable results visible and trackable each week. As Alpha grows into additional campuses, the instructional framework you establish here will serve as the national reading instruction standard.
If you hold that structured literacy achieves optimal results when personalized, data-informed, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a classroom of six-year-olds, this position embodies that principle. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and structure targeted instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, not only during planning periods
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly targets
- Tailoring instruction across focused reading groups according to individual learning preferences and requirements
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons informed by student data)
- Presenting to a full classroom (all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students advance through math, science, and other content independently through adaptive apps)
- Operating within a traditional classroom schedule featuring bells, transitions, and standardized pacing guides
- Grading homework or producing report cards (student advancement is monitored through app data and running records)
Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience creating original reading lessons (not exclusively depending on a published program)
- Willingness to utilize AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Experience utilizing AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Demonstrated record of measuring and communicating specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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-4849-US-Austin-InstructionalC.048
Salary : $100,000