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

• $120,000 annual salary, paid each week, with health, dental, and vision coverage beginning day one
• Full-time on-site position at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, entirely classroom-based with students in grades K-3
  
  

Your structured-literacy certification — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-3 reading position you've pursued. In most cases, it also marked the limit: you carried out an existing program and tracked its progress. At Alpha, the credential is where you begin. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has replaced conventional instruction. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be substituted. You create 20-minute small-group workshops based on live app analytics; sessions are deliberately brief, because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets, using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate game mechanics). You catch a miscue during a session, identify the underlying phonemic weakness, and have the next day's workshop revised before you leave. That is the baseline expectation.

Families enrolled at these campuses have selected Alpha for results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly reports on their child's reading progress and they expect dialogue. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, name the phonemic deficit, and outline your instructional response. That 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 measurement. As you prove your approach, your influence grows beyond your own room: strategies that succeed with your students become templates for other Alpha campuses to replicate, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading instruction evolves as Alpha expands. What you develop here extends far beyond your immediate environment.

Before an offer is extended, you will record a brief video in which you tell a captivating story suited to young children, and you will spend an entire day on campus interacting directly with K-3 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops using real-time adaptive-app analytics, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable)
• Leading daily motivation sessions designed to drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated student 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 visible in the weekly campus data meetings
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-3 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district-mandated pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student performance data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students work through academic subjects on adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to colleagues, or district-level program coordinator; you are in the classroom with students daily
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework corrections, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic documentation; student advancement is captured in app metrics and your running records, not in special-education forms
  
  

Literacy Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate quantifiable K-3 reading progress across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus culture where results 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 discipline, plus 2 years of full-time K-3 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to design original reading lessons and explain what you teach and how, independent of a commercial program
• Availability to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to serve all K-3 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without need for visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-driven or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student performance analysis
• History of documented reading outcomes (fluency growth in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) you can quantify
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, high-performing charter networks, premium tutoring services with outcome-focused families)
• Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or other activities requiring you to engage a K-3 audience outside traditional reading instruction
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-LiteracyCoordi.002