What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care. That gap is your job.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in a two-hour daily block. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills—public speaking, focus, feedback exchange. You work from a playbook, but the strongest performers in this role tailor it to their group and create fresh activities when gaps appear. 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 app targets. Warmth buys you the credibility to demand more. Demanding more signals your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three, and you have not fulfilled the role. Your first year is about mastering the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a position where you mentor newer hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you are drawn to traditional teaching methods, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on circle time, camp counseling for young children, youth sports coaching, or performing in children's theater, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Basic Requirements
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-5634-US-MiamiBea-KindergartenTe
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in a two-hour daily block. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills—public speaking, focus, feedback exchange. You work from a playbook, but the strongest performers in this role tailor it to their group and create fresh activities when gaps appear. 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 app targets. Warmth buys you the credibility to demand more. Demanding more signals your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three, and you have not fulfilled the role. Your first year is about mastering the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a position where you mentor newer hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you are drawn to traditional teaching methods, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on circle time, camp counseling for young children, youth sports coaching, or performing in children's theater, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal rapport you establish with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve mastery until they do.
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level through songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.
- Delivering lessons at the whiteboard. Academic content is housed in the apps, not delivered by you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
- Passively monitoring children at computers. Motivation in this environment is active, individualized, and continuous.
- Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not revising the target.
- Grading homework, conducting standardized test prep, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist here.
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.
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-5634-US-MiamiBea-KindergartenTe
Salary : $120,000