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

• $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage effective day one
• Full-time on-site at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, entirely in-classroom with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy credential — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most cases, it also marked the limit: you executed a prescribed program and submitted reports. At Alpha, the credential is your entry point. If this difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Academic coursework is completed by students independently through AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your function is the one domain where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops using real-time app data; sessions are intentionally brief because precision is more effective than duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). You detect a student's miscue during a session, identify the phonemic gap, and redesign the following day's workshop before you leave. This is the expectation.

Families enrolling at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly progress data on their child's reading development, and they engage directly. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference the running record, identify the phonemic weakness, and describe your intervention. That level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.

Your initial months center on establishing credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) provide direct feedback. Once you establish this foundation, your influence expands beyond your own students: successful methods you develop become templates for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs reading instruction as Alpha scales. The impact of your work extends well beyond your classroom.

Prior to hiring, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will spend an entire day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children, regardless of credential strength, will not meet the bar. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-2 reading workshops based on live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Conducting daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction in real time, not just during planning periods
• Delivering running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains visible in weekly campus data reviews
• Serving as the energetic, relatable adult your K-2 students are excited to see every day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you design instruction directly from student data
• Teaching full-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation. Your time is structured around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is captured in app data and your running records, not special-education documentation
  
  

Literacy Coach Key Responsibilities

Generate measurable K-2 reading progress across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes undergo weekly review.

Basic Requirements

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the last 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to design original reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional content and methods without depending on a published program
• Commitment to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• Openness to working with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporating AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progression) you can cite with specific numbers
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Background in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring with outcome-focused families)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond traditional reading instruction
  
  

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-5632-US-LakeFore-LiteracyCoach.002