Reading Interventionist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual salary, paid every week, including health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Full-time on-site placement 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-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with students in grades K-2
  
  

You've invested years building mastery in structured literacy. You hold credentials in Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading. You listen to a miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic weakness. You create phonics lessons without relying on a scripted curriculum. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is Guide-first: a magnetic, high-energy adult whom children genuinely enjoy learning from. Your structured-literacy background opens the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 group for 20 minutes is what earns you the role. If "magnetic, high-energy presence" doesn't sound like you, this isn't the right fit.

Alpha has redesigned conventional instruction from the ground up. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive platforms—no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position is the irreplaceable human element. You build small-group reading workshops driven by live student data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that push 100% of your students to reach weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on earning trust and enthusiasm. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" feedback (goal: 90% ) track this directly. Once you prove impact, your responsibilities expand: reading AI-generated performance insights to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency progress and decoding growth to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading strategy develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha grows to additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Before hiring, you'll submit a brief video of yourself telling a captivating story for young children, and you'll complete a full on-campus day working directly with K-2 learners. Low energy with students is disqualifying, regardless of credentials. 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 comparable), informed by live student performance data
• Running daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students achieve their weekly adaptive-app objectives, using Alpha's motivational system (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding measures to monitor progress and inform next-session planning
• Analyzing AI-generated performance reports from Alpha's adaptive platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, not only during advance preparation
• Serving as the warm, dynamic adult presence your K-2 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district-mandated pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student data
• Delivering whole-group lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted small groups while students engage with adaptive apps for core academics
• Serving as a reading coach, consultant to other educators, or district-level specialist; you work directly with children in the classroom daily
• Operating a traditional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test-prep drills; your time is devoted to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small-group instruction
• Grading assignments or issuing report cards; student advancement is captured in app analytics and your running records
  
  

Reading Interventionist 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 at least 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 independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional approach and content, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work on-site 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 teach all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into everyday instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Practical experience using AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains measured in WCPM, accuracy increases, decoding level advances) you can cite with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid models)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other activities involving engaging a K-2 audience outside a traditional 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-Pensacol-ReadingInterve.035