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

• $120,000 annual salary paid weekly, health/dental/vision coverage begins day one
• On-site position at a single Alpha campus in 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)
• Full-time, 40 hours weekly, entirely classroom-based with kindergarten through second grade students
  
  

Your structured-literacy training — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a reading instruction Master's — has opened the door to every K-2 literacy position you've pursued. In most cases, it also defined the upper limit: you delivered a prescribed program and documented results. At Alpha, that credential marks the entry point. If this difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has redesigned conventional instruction. Academic content is delivered through AI-adaptive applications that students navigate independently. No lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your expertise fills the irreplaceable human role. You construct targeted 20-minute small-group sessions using live app analytics; brevity is intentional, because precision outperforms duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to bring 100% of students to weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate game mechanics). When you catch a miscue during a session, identify the phonemic deficit, and redesign the next day's workshop before leaving campus — that's the baseline expectation.

Families enrolled at these campuses selected Alpha for measurable progress, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly performance data on their child's reading development, and they ask pointed questions. When asked how a particular student is advancing, responding with "they're doing fine" will not suffice. You must reference the running record, specify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

Your initial months focus on establishing credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (90% target) provide direct feedback. Once you've proven your impact, your influence expands beyond your classroom: successful strategies with your students inform adoption across other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences how reading instruction evolves systemwide as Alpha scales. The work you do here extends well beyond your own four walls.

Before an offer is extended, you will record a brief video presenting 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 is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-2 literacy workshops driven by real-time adaptive-app analytics, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions to ensure 100% of students meet weekly app milestones using Alpha's motivational system (campus currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game elements)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency assessments, and decoding evaluations to generate progress measurable in weekly campus data meetings
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to see daily
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercially published reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district pacing calendar; you build lessons directly from student performance data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; instruction occurs exclusively in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive technology
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for colleagues, or district-level program specialist; you work directly with children in the classroom every day
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lessons, homework correction, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-responsive small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic evaluation reports; student advancement is tracked through app analytics and your running records, not special-education documentation
  
  

Literacy Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate quantifiable K-2 reading growth across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus culture where outcomes are assessed weekly.

Basic Requirements

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus at least 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction within the past 5 years in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly articulate instructional content and methodology, without dependence on a published curriculum
• Availability 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)
• Readiness to work with the full K-2 student population (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily practice as those platforms develop
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-driven or adaptive literacy platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student performance analysis
• Documented reading gains (fluency increases in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific metrics
• Familiarity with diagnostic literacy assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Background in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, high-performing charter networks, premium tutoring with outcome-focused families)
• Experience in performance, youth athletics coaching, or other activities involving engaging K-2 audiences beyond the literacy classroom
  
  

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-Chicago-LiteracyCoordi.001