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

• $120,000 annual salary paid weekly, health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site placement 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 (we provide relocation support)
• 40-hour work week, entirely classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy training — whether Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened doors to every K-2 literacy position you've pursued. At most schools, it also defined the upper limit: you carried out an existing program and documented results. At Alpha, that training is your entry point, not your endpoint. If this difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has reimagined traditional instruction. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing guides. Your expertise fills the one space where human judgment cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops based on live app performance data; these sessions are intentionally brief, because targeted instruction outperforms extended time. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic weakness and recalibrate tomorrow's workshop before day's end. That level of responsiveness is the baseline expectation.

Families who enroll at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly data reflecting their child's reading progress, and they ask pointed questions. You will field specific inquiries about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances like "they're doing fine" are insufficient. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. This level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

Your initial months focus 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 demonstrate consistent success, your influence grows beyond your own students: effective practices you develop become templates adopted by other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences how reading instruction evolves as Alpha scales. Your contributions extend well beyond your classroom walls.

Prior to hire, you will submit a brief video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. This requirement is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Crafting small-group K-2 reading workshops using real-time adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions to drive 100% of students toward weekly app goals via Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the school day, not only during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments that yield measurable gains reflected in weekly campus data reviews
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a packaged reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district-mandated pacing guide; you design instruction based on student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students progress through academic subjects using adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for other teachers, or district-level specialist; you work directly with children in the classroom daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation. Instead, your time is organized around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic evaluations; student progress is tracked via app data and your running records, not special-education documentation
  
  

Literacy Coach Key Responsibilities

Deliver measurable K-2 reading progress in phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes are assessed weekly.

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 field, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capability to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional methods and content, without dependence on a published curriculum
• Readiness 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 support available)
• Openness to working with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporating AI and adaptive-learning technologies 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 using AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains measured in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progressions) that you can describe with specific numbers
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) used to create 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 other activities requiring you to engage 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-BeverlyH-LiteracyCoach