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

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Full-time on-site placement at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

You have invested years in structured literacy mastery. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You identify a student's reading error and instantly pinpoint the phonemic skill to address. You build phonics lessons independently, without needing a scripted curriculum. That's baseline. It doesn't differentiate you.

What differentiates you is that six-year-olds become energized when you enter the classroom. At Alpha, this position centers on being a Guide first: a dynamic, captivating presence children enjoy learning with. Your structured-literacy background opens the door; your capacity to engage a K-2 classroom throughout a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "dynamic, captivating presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this role isn't a fit.

Alpha has reimagined traditional teaching. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on earning the classroom's trust. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably impactful. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) directly measure your success. Once you establish this foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance metrics to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading framework evolves in tandem with adaptive technology. As Alpha opens new campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the organization.

Before we extend an offer, you'll record a brief video delivering an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That's 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
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students achieve their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics from Alpha's adaptive learning apps to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during pre-planning
• Serving as the approachable, dynamic adult your K-2 students eagerly anticipate seeing each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons informed by student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, peer coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Grading homework or report cards; student advancement is tracked through app data and your running records
  
  

Literacy Specialist Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that measurably accelerates 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 explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
• 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 record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can quantify
• 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 beyond the reading classroom
  
  

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 $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-FortWort-LiteracySpecia.036