Literacy Specialist, 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 a single 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% classroom-based work with K-2 students
  
  

You have dedicated years to mastering structured literacy. Whether Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's miscue and immediately know which phonemic gap to address. You can construct a phonics lesson from scratch, without relying on a scripted program. That expertise is the baseline—not your differentiator.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is fundamentally a Guide role: a dynamic, engaging presence that children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "dynamic, engaging presence" does not characterize you, this role is not a fit.

Alpha has reimagined conventional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications—no lectures, no textbooks, no predetermined pacing. Your role represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance data, and you conduct motivation sessions designed to 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 establishing credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) provide direct measurement. Once you establish success, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology evolves in tandem with adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the organization.

Prior to hiring, you will submit a brief video recording of yourself telling an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full-day on-campus session working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify candidates, 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
• Conducting daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet 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 instruction for upcoming sessions
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, beyond advance planning
• Serving as the approachable, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to see daily
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district-mandated pacing guide; you will design lessons independently using student data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you will be in the classroom with students every day
• Operating a traditional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation; your time is structured around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Grading homework or issuing report cards; student progress is captured in app data and your running records
  
  

Literacy Specialist Key Responsibilities

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

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-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, employing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional approach and content, without dependence on a published program
• Willingness to work full-time in person 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 exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technology into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual proficiency in English and 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 instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented track record of measurable reading gains (fluency improvement in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) that you can quantify
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter schools, micro-schools, Montessori, hybrid models)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other contexts requiring engagement of K-2 audiences beyond 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-Tulsa-LiteracySpecia