Instructional Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• On-site at an Alpha campus location: Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
• Annual salary of $120,000, paid weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
• Daily integration of AI-driven tools and adaptive learning technologies in classroom instruction
  
  

You know that 20 minutes of precision-targeted reading instruction delivers more impact than 90 minutes of scripted lessons, and your student outcomes support that conviction. You've seen children move past phonics barriers when you identify the specific gap yourself, rather than following a predetermined curriculum sequence. If building lessons directly from live student data feels empowering instead of burdensome, read on.

Alpha's reading instruction operates on one core principle: every moment counts. Your workshops are focused 20-minute sessions constructed around each student's actual needs, not the requirements of a pacing calendar. You'll conduct reading assessments, organize targeted groups, and provide high-impact structured literacy teaching (phonics, fluency, comprehension) to students aged 4-7 that produces measurable weekly progress. AI-driven adaptive platforms work alongside you, producing performance insights you'll apply to refine the next day's instruction before the current session concludes.

This position evolves over time. Your first year centers on classroom immersion: facilitating workshops, conducting motivational activities that convert hesitant readers into enthusiastic learners, and supplying detailed observational feedback to the technology team refining Alpha's AI literacy platform. As these tools expand and your input influences their development, your expertise reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to building a reading system that functions across multiple campuses, transforming what you accomplish with 15 children into a scalable model serving hundreds.

If you've dedicated your career to demonstrating the effectiveness of structured literacy and you're prepared to combine that knowledge with technology that extends your reach, this is where your influence transcends the boundaries of a single classroom.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops derived from your own diagnostic evaluation of each student's reading ability and skill gaps
• Leveraging AI-generated student performance insights to modify group composition and lesson priorities between sessions, not only at quarterly intervals
• Facilitating motivational activities that cultivate intrinsic reading motivation, employing age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
• Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live workshops, then delivering structured feedback to the technology team regarding effectiveness and areas for improvement
• Monitoring measurable results (fluency progress, decoding level advancement, accuracy gains) and applying these insights to refine your instructional methods on a weekly basis
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a scripted or boxed reading curriculum. You identify needs and create instruction independently.
• Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-format literacy blocks. Instructional sessions are brief, targeted, and high-intensity.
• Serving only below-grade-level readers. You'll teach all K-2 students regardless of current reading proficiency.
• Working separately from technology. AI adaptive platforms are integrated into your everyday workflow, not supplementary tools.
• Postponing instructional adjustments until quarterly data cycles. You modify your approach in real time based on current data indicators.
  
  

Instructional Coach Key Responsibilities

Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-supported structured literacy instruction.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (any field)
• Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
• 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Capacity to independently design reading lessons and articulate what you teach and your instructional methods, without depending on a commercial program
• Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance provided)
• Readiness to incorporate AI and adaptive learning technologies daily and adjust as platforms develop
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Documented record of measurable student reading improvement you can articulate with concrete data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G within one semester)
• History of collaboration with edtech teams, product development teams, or instructional designers on tool creation
• Experience in a startup, micro-school, or alternative educational setting where you developed systems instead of implementing existing ones
  
  

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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5632-US-Denver-InstructionalC1.006