K-8 Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
• 40 hours per week, on-site at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (possible temporary assignment at a different Alpha campus until Kirkland opens)
• Valid Washington State Teaching Certificate mandatory. No active certificate means no interview.
  
  

You hold a WA teaching certificate. The real question is whether you want to keep lecturing, grading papers, and delivering a standardized curriculum to every child.

Your role here is not traditional teaching. You coach. You motivate. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that idea troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning through AI-driven adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no lesson plans to prepare on weekends. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Around 30% involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and driving each student toward their weekly app progression goals. The remaining 10% is dedicated to reviewing performance data and translating it into actionable coaching strategies for the following week. You will not follow a rigid script; the most effective Guides adapt existing workshops and create new content when they identify a need.

Success here is not defined by engaging activities. It is defined by measurable progress. A semester is successful when at least 90% of your cohort demonstrates pre-to-post improvement on Test2Pass, at least 90% meet their weekly learning-app progression targets, and students rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Fall short on any of those three metrics and the role is not a fit. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for advancement to Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead.

If you prefer ready-made curriculum, or if you believe warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not right for you. If your WA certificate is current and you are excited to coach K-8 students toward concrete outcomes rather than lecture from a textbook, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills, modifying existing materials and creating new sessions when you identify content gaps
• Conducting Test2Pass pre- and post-assessments and coaching students who have not yet achieved mastery until they demonstrate competency
• Holding daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app progression goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Analyzing weekly performance metrics, identifying struggling students early, and implementing intervention strategies within the same week
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and whom students trust; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging students signals your confidence in their abilities
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard or preparing daily lesson plans; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you execute a proven framework with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students on computers or allowing them to disengage throughout the day; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target or advancing a student without proven mastery to maintain momentum or sidestep difficult discussions
• Assessing homework or handling parent communications
  
  

K-8 Teacher Key Responsibilities

Lead a K-8 cohort to demonstrated mastery of life skills and consistent achievement of weekly learning-app progression goals.

Basic Requirements

• Current, valid Washington State Teaching Certificate (issued by WA OSPI) or capacity to obtain one promptly
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Available to work 40 hours per week on-site at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (with potential temporary assignment at another Alpha campus before Kirkland opens)
• Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background working with K-8 students in any setting (classroom instruction, tutoring, sports coaching, debate, theater, camps, or after-school programs)
• Personal track record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is intrinsic to who you are, not a role you perform
• Strong storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged, active learners
  
  

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-5790-US-Seattle-K8Teacher.002