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

• $100,000/year salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting on day one
• Full-time on-site 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-hour work week, 100% in-classroom time with K-2 students
  
  

You have dedicated years to mastering structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You recognize a student's miscue and immediately identify the phonemic gap to address. You design phonics lessons independently, without reliance on scripted programs. That's the baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is primarily a Guide: a captivating, high-energy presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy background opens the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the position. If "captivating, high-energy presence" does not describe you, this role is not the right fit.

Alpha has eliminated traditional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your role represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops based on real-time student performance data, and you facilitate 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).

Your initial months focus on earning credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90% ) directly measure your success. As you establish yourself, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to modify upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology evolves in partnership with adaptive tools. As Alpha grows to additional campuses, your work becomes the template for reading instruction across the country.

Before we extend an offer, you will record a brief video delivering an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That 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 real student data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students achieve 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 subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning applications to differentiate instruction in real time, not only during planning
• Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students eagerly anticipate seeing each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Adhering to a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons based on student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, focused groups while 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 daily
• Managing a traditional classroom block — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Grading homework or issuing report cards; student progress is tracked in app data and your running records
  
  

Literacy Specialist 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 discipline, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without dependence on a published program
• Willingness to work in person 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 exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency 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 record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level progression) you can quantify
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative school environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience in performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience 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-Norman-LiteracySpecia