Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• On-site position at an Alpha School campus (locations: Chicago, IL
• Miami, FL
• Palo Alto, CA
• Piedmont, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Santa Monica, CA
• Lake Forest, CA
• Greenwich, CT
• Boston, MA; relocation assistance available)
• $120,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• School-year calendar with predictable, structured hours
  
  

The most supportive action you can take for a 6-year-old who earned 99% is to withhold calling it 100%. If that principle feels uncomfortable, this isn't the right fit. If it feels self-evident—if you believe children rise to meet the expectations you set—this role is designed for you.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Academic learning happens through adaptive software that adjusts to each student's level and progresses at their individual pace. There are no classroom lectures. No identical worksheets distributed to 25 children. Instead, each student advances through personalized learning applications while you, as their Guide, support them through the challenging moments: maintaining focus when difficulty increases, working through frustration, and celebrating genuine mastery rather than mere participation.

Your day begins with motivation sessions: analyzing each student's progress within their learning applications, establishing daily objectives, and identifying the right motivational approach for each child. That might mean a leaderboard competition, school currency rewards, or a direct conversation about their potential. Afternoons transition to life skills workshops where you facilitate instruction in public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback through project-based, hands-on experiences. You'll conduct mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) where students prove they've absorbed the skill, not simply attended the lesson. Throughout, you're guiding emotional regulation, resilience, and critical thinking with consistent boundaries and care.

Guides who excel here advance to Lead Guide positions, mentoring teams of Guides while continuing direct work with their own student cohort. The progression from "I transformed these 15 children's trajectories" to "I'm developing the team that transforms hundreds" is tangible and clearly defined. If traditional education never appealed to you but you believe what occurs between ages 4 and 7 determines everything afterward—apply.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating daily motivation sessions with K-2 students: analyzing Coachbot analytics, establishing individualized objectives, and applying Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, 1-on-1 coaching) to achieve 100% goal completion
• Leading one-hour life skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, giving/receiving feedback, and time management—all experiential and project-based, adhering to Alpha's curriculum playbook
• Guiding emotional regulation, resilience, and problem-solving in partnership with Reading Specialists who manage literacy instruction
• Conducting Test2Pass mastery assessments where students prove they've internalized each life skill prior to advancement
• Cultivating authentic relationships with each student by understanding their interests, capabilities, and challenges so your coaching is individualized, not formulaic
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting lectures or delivering traditional academic instruction. Students acquire academic knowledge through adaptive applications, not through you.
• Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the life skills curriculum and lesson frameworks; your role is to execute them effectively.
• Advancing students who haven't shown mastery. If they achieved 99%, you guide them to 100%.
• Supervising children passively on computers. Every moment is organized around active coaching, motivation, and competency development.
• Handling parent communications or campus-wide logistics. Those fall under the Campus Lead's responsibility.
  
  

Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-2 students who thrive in school, progress through adaptive learning at double the conventional rate, and develop critical life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with children ages 4–7 (teaching, afterschool programs, coaching, camps, or comparable settings)
• Proven ability to manage groups of young children with both structure and strong engagement
• Strong storyteller and dynamic speaker capable of capturing and holding the attention of a room of 5-year-olds
• Shows continuous improvement in response to feedback
• Available to work in-person at an Alpha campus (Chicago, IL
• Miami, FL
• Palo Alto, CA
• Piedmont, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Santa Monica, CA
• Lake Forest, CA
• Greenwich, CT
• Boston, MA; relocation support offered)
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports coaching, summer camp leadership, or afterschool program management where you held accountability for both engagement and results
• Performance background (theater, public speaking, improv) that enables you to command attention in a room of young children
• Familiarity with adaptive learning platforms or educational technology tools in classroom or tutoring environments
• Personal history as a high achiever—academically, athletically, or professionally—that informs your ability to hold children to equally high standards
  
  

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-5634-US-Greenwic-KindergartenTe