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

• $100,000 annual salary, paid on a weekly schedule, with full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at one Alpha campus location: 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 weekly, 100% classroom-based work with K-2 students
  
  

You've invested years building structured literacy mastery. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You recognize a student's reading error and immediately identify the underlying phonemic weakness. You design phonics instruction independently, without reliance on scripted curricula. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you arrive. At Alpha, this position is Guide first: an engaging, high-energy presence students genuinely want to learn from. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the role. If "engaging, high-energy presence" doesn't fit your style, this position isn't right for you.

Alpha has eliminated conventional instruction. Students work through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise remains essential. You create small-group reading workshops based on live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions designed to drive 100% student achievement of weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on building credibility with students. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (90% target) provide direct measurement. Once you establish this foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the organization.

Prior to hiring, you'll submit a brief video presenting an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full-day campus visit working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies 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 actual student performance data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of 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 upcoming instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in real time, beyond advance planning
• Serving as the approachable, energetic 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 pacing calendar; you create instruction from 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 work directly with children in the classroom daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework checking, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Assigning grades or completing report cards; student progress is captured in app data 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 field, 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 original reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and your methodology, without depending on a published program
• Availability 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)
• Openness to working with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporating AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish fluency 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 increases, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific data
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging K-2 audiences beyond traditional reading instruction
  
  

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-Tampa-ReadingInterve.042