What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructional Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site position 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/year full-time salary, with weekly payment
- Health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
- Relocation assistance available
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning model integrates AI-adaptive software with skilled human instruction. Students work through academic coursework independently via personalized applications. Lectures, textbooks, and pacing guides do not exist. Your role focuses on the area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops in which you create and deliver structured literacy instruction matched to each student's phonics and decoding level. Real-time AI-generated performance data informs your session planning, allows for immediate adjustments, and enables you to track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding progression.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that maintain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their coach, their advocate, the individual who knows their name, their interests, and precisely where they stand in their reading development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly goals, and 90% rate their Guide as someone they genuinely enjoy learning with. This role emphasizes measurable results you can observe and track every week, not curriculum coverage. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the instructional model you develop here will serve as the blueprint for reading instruction across the nation.
If you believe structured literacy achieves its greatest impact when personalized, driven by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a classroom of six-year-olds, this is the role where that conviction becomes your daily work. 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 interpreting running records to evaluate each student's reading level and develop targeted instructional plans
- Using AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, beyond pre-planning phases
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly goals
- Tailoring instruction across small reading groups according to individual learning styles and student needs
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons using student data)
- Presenting lectures to a full classroom (all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students complete 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 report cards (student progress is monitored via 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 using 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
- Documented history 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-SaltLake-InstructionalC
Salary : $100,000