Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000/year W2 compensation, disbursed weekly; health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• Full-time on-site role at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
  
  

Your role is not to instruct. Your role is to inspire action.

The most powerful act of support for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to call it complete. If that principle unsettles you, this is not your role. If it energizes you because maintaining standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, students in grades K-2 engage with academic content via AI-driven applications for two hours daily. There are no lectures. There are no worksheets. You will spend half of each day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective individuals in this position customize them for their student group and create new content when gaps emerge. The remaining half of your day is dedicated to sitting with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly application-based objectives. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are the mechanisms by which you sustain attention long enough to facilitate learning. Warmth grants you the credibility to demand more. Demanding more communicates your confidence in their capability.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly application goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. In your first year, you internalize the system; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold expectations, the trajectory opens toward Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to work directly with children.

If you are drawn to conventional teaching methods, prefer curriculum to be delivered to you fully formed, or view warmth and rigorous standards as conflicting values, this role is not suitable. If your background includes thriving as an early-elementary educator who excelled during circle time, serving as a camp counselor for young children, coaching youth sports, performing in children's theater, or any role where you captivated a room of kindergarteners through vocal presence, playfulness, and raw energy, the final stage before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 students in grades K-2, covering public speaking, sustained focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly application-based goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously holding first and second graders accountable to concrete, trackable standards
• Serving as the warm presence children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their capability
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction from the front of the room; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Building curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the system and you execute it
• Overseeing children as they use computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and unrelenting
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the intervention addresses the student, not the goal
• Evaluating homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work full-time on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp facilitation, or youth program coordination)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Able to participate in a paid training program held at our Austin, TX campus
• Openness to allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early childhood education, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives
• Personal record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others reflects a consistent approach, not an adopted stance
• Natural stage presence with young children—the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal delivery, playfulness, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated success in transforming hesitant or disengaged young children into self-assured, active contributors
  
  

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 $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-5149-US-SaltLake-KindergartenTe