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

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site position at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% in-classroom with K-2 learners
  
  

You have spent years mastering structured literacy. Perhaps Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can identify a student's miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic gap to address. You can construct a phonics lesson from scratch, no scripted program needed. That's baseline. It's not your differentiator.

Your differentiator is that six-year-olds brighten when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide: a captivating, high-energy presence students love learning with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to hold a K-2 classroom's attention for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "captivating, high-energy presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this role is not the right fit.

Alpha has reimagined traditional instruction. Students work through academic content independently on AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing guides. Your position represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops based on live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students achieve their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on earning the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction scores and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90% ) directly measure that success. As you demonstrate mastery, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine next-session instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology evolves alongside adaptive technologies. As Alpha opens new campuses, the model you develop becomes the reading instruction standard nationwide.

Before an offer is extended, you will record a brief video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K-2 learners. Low energy with students is disqualifying, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student data
• Running daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and interpreting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine upcoming instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, not only during lesson prep
• Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see every day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create your own lessons based on student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction takes place in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom block — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test prep; your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Grading homework or report cards; student progress is tracked through app data and your running records
  
  

Literacy Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

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

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, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly articulate what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into everyday instruction
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation
• Documented record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can articulate with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative school environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience outside the reading 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 $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-SugarLan-LiteracyProgra