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

• $120,000/year salary, weekly pay, plus health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site 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)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy certification — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most roles, it also defined the limit: you executed someone else's curriculum and documented results. Here, the credential is where you begin. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Academic coursework is completed by students independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no pacing guides. Your position is the one area where a human specialist cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops based on real-time app data; sessions are deliberately brief, because focused precision is more effective than duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic deficit and redesign the next day's workshop before you leave. That is the baseline expectation.

Families at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly data showing their child's reading development, and they expect detailed answers. You will face direct questions about individual student progress, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference the running record, identify the specific phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.

Your initial months are focused on proving your impact. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90% ) provide direct feedback. As you establish credibility, your influence extends beyond your own classroom: the strategies that work for your students become models for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading instruction scales as Alpha expands. The systems you develop here reach far beyond your immediate students.

Before you are hired, you will submit a short video of yourself telling a compelling story for young children, and you will spend an entire 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 reading workshops driven by live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app goals through Alpha's motivational system (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension signal) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains documented in the weekly campus data review
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy 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 lessons based on student data
• Delivering lectures to an entire classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with students every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups instead
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is captured in app data and your running records, not in special-education documentation
  
  

Literacy Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate measurable K-2 reading growth 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 setting within the last 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness 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 provided)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data analysis
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can cite with specific numbers
• Experience administering diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for forming differentiated instructional groups
• Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring with families who monitor outcomes closely)
• Background in performance, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience outside 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-LasVegas-LiteracyProgra.002