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 role.
At Alpha, students in grades K–3 master academics through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshop delivery to match that band. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is dedicated to running one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the giving and receiving of feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers in this role adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half, you conduct 1:1 sessions or work with small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more shows them you know they can succeed.
A quarter is successful when every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three and you have not met the standard. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, want a ready-made curriculum, or think warmth and high expectations conflict, this role is not for you. If you have worked 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 an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, masters 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-SaltLake-KindergartenTe
At Alpha, students in grades K–3 master academics through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshop delivery to match that band. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is dedicated to running one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the giving and receiving of feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers in this role adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half, you conduct 1:1 sessions or work with small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more shows them you know they can succeed.
A quarter is successful when every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three and you have not met the standard. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, want a ready-made curriculum, or think warmth and high expectations conflict, this role is not for you. If you have worked 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 an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, adapting the playbook to your group rather than following it word-for-word.
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you have established with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
- Meeting kindergarteners where they are through songs, storytelling, movement, and playfulness while maintaining real, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.
- Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered by the apps, not by you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Babysitting children at computers. Motivation in this role is active, personal, and continuous.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it. If a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not to lower the goal.
- Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here.
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, masters 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-SaltLake-KindergartenTe
Salary : $120,000