Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• On-site position at an Alpha School campus (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)
• Annual salary of $120,000, paid weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• School-year calendar with predictable hours
  
  

The most powerful support you can offer a 6-year-old who achieved 99% is to withhold the 100% until it's earned. If that approach strikes you as harsh, this role isn't for you. If it strikes you as self-evident—if you know children meet the expectations you set for them—this position was designed with you in mind.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Academic learning happens through adaptive software that individualizes pacing and content for each student. No lectures are delivered. No identical worksheets distributed to a class of 25. Instead, each child progresses through personalized learning platforms while you—their Guide—coach them through the challenging moments: maintaining focus when difficulty increases, working through frustration, and recognizing genuine mastery rather than mere participation.

Your day begins with motivation sessions: analyzing each student's progress within their learning apps, establishing daily targets, and identifying the appropriate motivator for each child. For some, it's a leaderboard. For others, school currency or a direct conversation about their potential. Afternoons transition to life skills workshops where you facilitate instruction in public speaking, concentration, and feedback skills through project-based, interactive activities. You'll administer mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) where students demonstrate internalization of skills, not just attendance. Throughout, you're guiding emotional regulation, building resilience, and teaching problem-solving through consistent structure paired with genuine warmth.

Guides who excel here advance to Lead Guide positions, mentoring Guide teams while continuing direct work with their own cohort. The progression from "I transformed these 15 students" to "I'm developing the team that transforms hundreds" is tangible and accessible. If traditional education never appealed to you, but you're convinced that what occurs between ages 4 and 7 determines everything after—submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting daily motivation sessions with K-2 students: analyzing Coachbot data, establishing individualized targets, and applying Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, one-on-one coaching) to achieve 100% goal attainment
• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, giving/receiving feedback, and time management through hands-on, project-based methods aligned with Alpha's curriculum playbook
• Guiding emotional regulation, resilience, and problem-solving in collaboration with Reading Specialists who provide literacy instruction
• Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations where students prove internalization of each life skill before progression
• Developing authentic connections with each student by understanding their passions, capabilities, and challenges so your coaching remains individualized rather than formulaic
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing at the front delivering lectures or teaching academic content. Academic learning occurs through adaptive applications, not direct instruction from 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 reached 99%, you guide them to 100%.
• Supervising children passively as they use computers. Every moment is organized around active coaching, motivation, and skill development.
• Handling parent communications or campus-wide logistics. Those responsibilities belong to the Campus Lead.
  
  

Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-2 students who are enthusiastic about school, progress through adaptive learning at double the conventional rate, and achieve mastery of critical life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of experience working 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
• Engaging storyteller and dynamic presenter 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 provided)
• 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 owned both engagement and measurable results
• Performance background (theater, public speaking, improv) that equips you to hold the attention of young children
• Familiarity with adaptive learning platforms or educational technology tools in classroom or tutoring contexts
• Personal history of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that informs your commitment to holding children to elevated 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-LearningCoach