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

• $120,000 annual salary, weekly pay, health/dental/vision coverage from day one
• Based full-time at one Alpha campus in: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, 100% in-classroom delivery with K-2 learners
  
  

Your structured-literacy training — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading — has opened the door to every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most cases, it's also where the journey ended: you delivered a prescribed program and documented results. At Alpha, that credential is your entry point, not your endpoint. If that difference resonates, read on.

Alpha has reimagined instruction from the ground up. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-driven adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your expertise occupies the one space where human judgment cannot be replaced. You build 20-minute small-group workshops driven by live app analytics; brevity is intentional, because targeted work outperforms duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to propel 100% of your learners toward weekly app benchmarks, using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate game mechanics). You catch a miscue during a session, identify the underlying phonemic deficit, and recalibrate tomorrow's workshop before the day ends. That responsiveness is the baseline expectation.

Families choosing these campuses prioritize measurable progress, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly data on their child's literacy development and they ask pointed questions. You will field specific inquiries about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference running records, name the phonemic challenge, and outline your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

Your initial period centers on proving impact. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (90% target) provide direct feedback. Once you establish credibility, your influence expands beyond your own room: successful strategies with your students become templates for other Alpha locations, and your assessment precision informs how reading instruction scales across the network. The instructional decisions you make here ripple outward.

Prior to hire, you will submit a short video delivering an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working hands-on with K-2 students. Low energy with children is disqualifying, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-2 literacy workshops using real-time adaptive-app data, anchored in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or similar)
• Conducting daily motivation sessions to ensure 100% of your students reach weekly app targets via Alpha's motivational architecture (campus currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game elements)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning periods
• Delivering running records, fluency checks, and decoding evaluations to generate growth visible in weekly campus data meetings
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 learners anticipate interacting with daily
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district timeline; you create lessons directly from student performance data
• Presenting to a whole class; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete core subjects through adaptive technology
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level resource; you work directly with children in the classroom daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-specific lectures, homework debriefs, test preparation. Your instructional blocks consist of workshops, motivational sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 accommodations, or formal psychoeducational reports; student progress is tracked via app analytics and your running records, not special-education documentation
  
  

Instructional Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate quantifiable K-2 literacy growth across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus culture where results are assessed weekly.

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 within the past 5 years, applying systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional content and methods, without depending on a commercial program
• Commitment to full-time, in-person work at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• Openness to working with all K-2 learners (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporating AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily practice as these tools develop
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-enabled or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy increases, decoding level progression) you can quantify
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Work history in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring environments with outcome-focused families)
• Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or engaging K-2 audiences outside traditional reading instruction
  
  

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-BeverlyH-InstructionalC