What are the responsibilities and job description for the Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
AI-powered instruction can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make that child care. That difference is your responsibility.
Alpha's K-3 students complete their academic work through AI-driven applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop delivery to fit that band. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. A playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role modify it for their cohort and create new activities when needed. The remaining half, you work with students individually or in small clusters, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child to complete 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns their trust; pushing them proves you believe in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Fail any of the three and the role has not been fulfilled. Your first year is dedicated to mastering the playbook; after demonstrating you can maintain the standard, the path to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and high expectations as incompatible, this role is not for you. If you have been 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 receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort completes 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-Denver-LearningCoach.002
Alpha's K-3 students complete their academic work through AI-driven applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop delivery to fit that band. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. A playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role modify it for their cohort and create new activities when needed. The remaining half, you work with students individually or in small clusters, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child to complete 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns their trust; pushing them proves you believe in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Fail any of the three and the role has not been fulfilled. Your first year is dedicated to mastering the playbook; after demonstrating you can maintain the standard, the path to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and high expectations as incompatible, this role is not for you. If you have been 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 receiving 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 public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, personalizing the playbook for your cohort rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that keep every student on track to meet weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you've established with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
- Engaging kindergarteners where they are—through songs, stories, 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.
- Delivering instruction from the whiteboard. Academic teaching is embedded in the applications, not in you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Passively supervising children at computers. Motivation here is active, individualized, and continuous.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is the student, not the goal.
- Grading homework, conducting 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 completes 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, 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-Denver-LearningCoach.002
Salary : $120,000