What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
An AI can instruct a six-year-old in reading. It cannot make her want to. Bridging that gap is your role.
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete their academic learning via AI-driven apps over two hours each day. As a Guide, you oversee one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and you adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop design to suit that band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating 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 customize it to fit their cohort and create new activities where gaps exist. The remaining half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth grants you permission to challenge. Challenging them demonstrates your belief in their capability.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any one of these three and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the opportunity arises to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you are drawn to conventional teaching, prefer a curriculum delivered to you without adaptation, or view warmth and rigorous expectations 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 stage before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Guarantee that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, 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-Providen-KindergartenTe
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete their academic learning via AI-driven apps over two hours each day. As a Guide, you oversee one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and you adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop design to suit that band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating 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 customize it to fit their cohort and create new activities where gaps exist. The remaining half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth grants you permission to challenge. Challenging them demonstrates your belief in their capability.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any one of these three and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the opportunity arises to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you are drawn to conventional teaching, prefer a curriculum delivered to you without adaptation, or view warmth and rigorous expectations 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 stage 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-3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills, customizing the playbook to your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep every student progressing toward weekly app targets, drawing on Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you have established with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and guiding students who fall short until they achieve mastery.
- Engaging kindergarteners with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and playfulness while simultaneously holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable standards.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle.
- Delivering instruction from the whiteboard. Academic content resides in the apps, not with you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Passively monitoring children at computers. Motivation in this model is active, personal, and persistent.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the goal.
- Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest do not exist here.
Guarantee that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, 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 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-Providen-KindergartenTe
Salary : $120,000