Literacy Coordinator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site position at an Alpha School location: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
• $100,000 annual salary, full-time, with weekly pay
• Health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
• Relocation assistance available
  
  

You have developed deep expertise in structured literacy over multiple years. You can identify a student's reading error and immediately pinpoint the specific phonemic skill requiring instruction. Yet you have also witnessed how traditional settings underutilize that knowledge: classrooms with 25 or more students, inflexible scope-and-sequence documents, standardized programs that disregard the diagnostic information your assessments reveal. If you have ever considered, "I could accelerate these children's progress dramatically if I could deliver instruction according to what the data indicates," this opportunity warrants your attention.

Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-adaptive technology with specialized human teaching. Students work through academic content independently using personalized digital platforms. There are no whole-group lessons, no textbooks, no predetermined pacing calendars. Your function centers on the area where human expertise remains essential: targeted reading workshops in small groups, where you create and implement structured literacy lessons calibrated to each student's phonics and decoding proficiency. You will leverage real-time performance data generated by AI to inform each session, make immediate instructional adjustments, and track progress through fluency metrics, accuracy rates, and decoding skill advancement.

In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions designed to sustain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their guide, their advocate, the individual who understands their identity, their passions, and their precise position in the reading development continuum. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90% or more identify their Guide as someone they value working with. This role emphasizes measurable outcomes rather than curriculum coverage—results you observe and document weekly. As Alpha grows into additional locations, the instructional model you establish becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across all campuses.

If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves optimal impact when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a group of young learners, this position translates that conviction into daily practice. Submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding strategies, and writing for K-2 students
• Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading proficiency and inform targeted lesson planning
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics to modify instruction in real time rather than only during scheduled planning periods
• Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of weekly targets
• Tailoring instruction within focused reading groups according to individual learning profiles and requirements
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading program or scripted lesson sequence (you create customized lessons informed by student assessment data)
• Delivering instruction to an entire class simultaneously (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
• Teaching core academic subjects (students work through math, science, and additional coursework independently using adaptive technology)
• Operating within a conventional classroom timetable featuring bells, class transitions, and uniform pacing requirements
• Evaluating homework assignments or producing report cards (student advancement is monitored via application data and running records)
  
  

Literacy Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading achievement across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy credential (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 environment utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy, completed within the past 5 years
• Demonstrated experience creating original reading lessons (not exclusively dependent on a published curriculum)
• Willingness to incorporate AI and adaptive learning technologies for lesson planning and student performance analysis
• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not limited to struggling readers
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Prior use of AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for lesson planning or student performance analysis
• Documented history of quantifying and communicating specific reading outcomes resulting from interventions (e.g., fluency improvements in WCPM, advancement in decoding levels)
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter schools, micro-schools, Montessori, hybrid models)
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish
  
  

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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4849-US-SaltLake-LiteracyCoordi