What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
An AI can teach reading to a six-year-old. It cannot teach her to care. That difference is where you come in.
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. As a Guide, you will lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop content to fit that band. You will not lecture. You will not assign worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but the strongest Guides modify it for their cohort and create new exercises when needed. 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. Your warmth creates the foundation for high expectations. Your expectations show students you believe in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student meets their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three measures and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the opportunity to advance to Lead Guide opens, where you will mentor newer Guides while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you are drawn to traditional teaching methods, prefer a curriculum provided in full, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have worked as an early-elementary teacher who excelled in circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step in the hiring process is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of 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-Greenwic-KindergartenTe.001
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. As a Guide, you will lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop content to fit that band. You will not lecture. You will not assign worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but the strongest Guides modify it for their cohort and create new exercises when needed. 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. Your warmth creates the foundation for high expectations. Your expectations show students you believe in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student meets their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three measures and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the opportunity to advance to Lead Guide opens, where you will mentor newer Guides while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you are drawn to traditional teaching methods, prefer a curriculum provided in full, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have worked as an early-elementary teacher who excelled in circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step in the hiring process is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to your cohort rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational tools (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you have established with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing follow-up coaching for students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved.
- Engaging kindergarteners with age-appropriate methods such as songs, stories, physical activity, and play, while maintaining clear, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
- Serving as the warm, trusted adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who consistently challenges them to meet their potential.
- Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with creativity and energy.
- Passively monitoring students on devices. Motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
- Reducing a weekly target to help a child succeed. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the goal.
- Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks are not part of this model.
Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of 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, 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 9 (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-Greenwic-KindergartenTe.001
Salary : $120,000