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 where you come in.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. A playbook guides you, but top performers tailor it to their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half is spent coaching students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and ensuring each child reaches 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth opens the door to high expectations. High expectations communicate belief.
A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Fall short on any of those three and the role wasn't fulfilled. Your first year is about mastering the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the opportunity to advance to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If traditional teaching appeals to you, you prefer ready-made curriculum, or you see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have thrived as an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before receiving 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 achieves their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying 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-Dripping-KindergartenTe.001
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. A playbook guides you, but top performers tailor it to their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half is spent coaching students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and ensuring each child reaches 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth opens the door to high expectations. High expectations communicate belief.
A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Fall short on any of those three and the role wasn't fulfilled. Your first year is about mastering the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the opportunity to advance to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If traditional teaching appeals to you, you prefer ready-made curriculum, or you see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have thrived as an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before receiving 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 on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, tailoring the playbook to fit your group rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that keep every student on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive tools (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you've established with each child.
- Administering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not yet pass until they achieve mastery.
- Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
- Being the caring adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not accept less than their best effort.
- Delivering lectures from the whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Passively monitoring kids at computers. Motivation here is intentional, individualized, and persistent.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. If a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the goal.
- Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist here.
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying 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, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, 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-Dripping-KindergartenTe.001
Salary : $120,000