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

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, health/dental/vision coverage begins on day one
• Full-time on-site position at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

You've invested years building deep expertise in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint the precise phonemic gap to address. You can construct a phonics lesson from scratch, without needing a scripted program. That's your baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide role first: a dynamic, engaging presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "dynamic, engaging presence" doesn't describe you, this role isn't the right fit.

Alpha has reimagined traditional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that propel 100% of students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on building rapport with the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) provide direct measurement. As you establish credibility, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens new campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Prior to hiring, you'll submit a brief video presenting an engaging story for young children, and you'll participate in a full-day campus visit 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

• Creating 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 propel 100% of students to reach their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine upcoming instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during pre-planning
• Serving as the approachable, 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 informed by student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you are classroom-based with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Assessing homework or producing report cards; student progress is captured in app data and your running records
  
  

Instructional Coordinator 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 discipline, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly 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; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

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

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-ParkCity-InstructionalC1.003