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

• On-site at an Alpha campus located in Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
• $120,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
• Daily instruction enhanced by AI-powered tools and adaptive learning technology
  
  

You know that 20 minutes of precision reading instruction delivers more than 90 minutes of scripted lessons, and your student outcomes confirm it. You've seen learners move past persistent phonics barriers because you identified the underlying gap directly, not because a curriculum dictated the next step. If building lessons from live student data feels like autonomy instead of burden, this role is worth your attention.

Alpha's reading instruction operates on one core principle: every minute counts. Your sessions are 20-minute workshops shaped by what individual students require right now, not what a scope-and-sequence assumes they need. You'll evaluate reading levels, organize targeted groups, and deliver high-impact structured literacy instruction (phonics, fluency, comprehension) for children aged 4-7 that produces measurable weekly progress. AI-powered adaptive platforms work alongside you, producing performance data you'll analyze to refine the next day's lesson before the current session wraps.

The position evolves. During your first year, you're immersed in direct instruction: facilitating workshops, leading motivational activities that transform hesitant readers into enthusiastic learners, and providing detailed observations to the technology team refining Alpha's AI literacy platforms. As these tools expand and your input informs their development, your influence reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to building a reading system that functions across multiple campuses, scaling what you accomplish with 15 children into a framework that serves hundreds.

If you've dedicated your career to demonstrating that structured literacy delivers results and you're prepared to combine that knowledge with technology that extends its reach, this is where your influence transcends a single classroom.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops informed by your own diagnostic evaluation of each student's reading proficiency and specific needs
• Applying AI-generated student performance insights to modify groupings and instructional priorities between sessions, not waiting for quarterly data cycles
• Facilitating motivational activities that cultivate genuine reading engagement, incorporating age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
• Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live instruction, then delivering structured feedback to the technology team regarding effectiveness and limitations
• Monitoring measurable progress indicators (fluency growth, decoding advancement, accuracy gains) and applying them to refine instructional methods on a weekly basis
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a pre-packaged or scripted reading curriculum. You identify needs and create instruction independently.
• Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-based literacy blocks. Instruction is brief, targeted, and intensive.
• Exclusively supporting struggling readers. You'll work with all K-2 students across the full range of reading abilities.
• Functioning independently from technology. AI adaptive platforms are integrated into your everyday practice, not an occasional supplement.
• Deferring instructional adjustments until quarterly data reviews. You modify instruction in real time based on current data.
  
  

Literacy Coach Key Responsibilities

Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-enhanced structured literacy instruction.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (any subject)
• Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
• 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting within the last 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Capacity to design independent reading lessons and articulate your instructional approach and content clearly, without dependence on a published program
• Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance available)
• Readiness to integrate AI and adaptive learning tools into daily practice and adapt as platforms develop
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Documented history of measurable student reading improvements you can articulate with concrete data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G in one semester)
• Prior collaboration with edtech teams, product teams, or instructional designers on tool creation or refinement
• Experience in a startup, micro-school, or non-traditional educational setting where you developed systems instead of following established ones
  
  

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-LasVegas-LiteracyCoach.001