What are the responsibilities and job description for the Literacy Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- Campus-based position at an Alpha School site: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000 annual full-time salary, disbursed weekly
- Health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Relocation assistance available
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-adaptive platforms with specialized human teaching. Students advance through academic content independently using personalized applications. There are no classroom lectures, no traditional textbooks, no standardized pacing sequences. Your function centers on the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops in which you create and implement structured literacy instruction customized to each student's phonics and decoding proficiency. You will utilize real-time AI-generated performance metrics to design each session, modify instruction as needed, and quantify results through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding progression.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions designed to maintain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their coach and advocate—the individual who knows their name, interests, and precise position in their reading development. The objective: achieve 100% of students reaching their weekly targets, and secure 90% rating their Guide as someone they genuinely enjoy working with. This role emphasizes measurable outcomes you can observe and track every week, not curriculum coverage. As Alpha establishes additional campuses, the instructional model you develop here will define reading instruction on a national scale.
If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves optimal results when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a classroom of six-year-olds, this position aligns with that conviction. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading proficiency and design targeted instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction in real time, not only during scheduled planning periods
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of weekly targets
- Tailoring instruction across focused reading groups according to individual learning preferences and requirements
- Implementing a commercial reading program or scripted lesson plans (you create original lessons informed by student data)
- Delivering instruction to a full classroom (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Teaching academic content areas (students complete math, science, and other subjects independently through adaptive applications)
- Operating within a traditional classroom structure with bells, transitions, and uniform pacing calendars
- Evaluating homework assignments or producing report cards (student advancement is monitored via app data and running records)
Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience designing original reading lessons (not solely relying on a published program)
- Willingness to use AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Experience using AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Track record of measuring and articulating specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience working in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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-SaltLake-LiteracySpecia
Salary : $100,000