Instructional Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage beginning day one
• Full-time on-site position at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour work week, 100% in-classroom with students in grades K-2
  
  

You have invested years in mastering structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You recognize a student's error pattern and immediately identify the phonemic skill to address. You design phonics instruction without needing a scripted program. That's expected. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide role first: a dynamic, compelling presence that children enjoy learning with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to engage a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns the offer. If "dynamic, compelling presence" does not describe you, this position is not a fit.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction. Students complete academic content independently on AI-adaptive platforms — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your role represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You build small-group reading workshops using real-time student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that guide 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on earning the room. Workshops must be engaging, differentiated, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) directly measure this. Once you demonstrate success, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to inform next-session instruction, communicating fluency gains and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading model evolves alongside adaptive tools. As Alpha grows to additional campuses, what you create becomes the blueprint for reading instruction nationwide.

Before we extend an offer, you will record a brief video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a complete day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that support 100% of your students in reaching their weekly adaptive-app targets, using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and inform next-session instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, not only during planning
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons using student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled blocks are workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
• Scoring homework or report cards; student progress is captured in app data and your running records
  
  

Instructional Coach Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.

Basic Requirements

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any field, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for planning or analyzing student data
• Documented record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can cite with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience outside the reading classroom
  
  

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-4849-US-Houston-InstructionalC.040