Reading Program Coordinator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site 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 per week, 100% in-classroom engagement with K-2 learners
  
  

You have invested years in structured literacy mastery. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint the exact phonemic gap requiring attention. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch, without relying on a scripted curriculum. That is the baseline. It is 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 a Guide role first: 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 hire. If "dynamic, engaging presence" does not reflect who you are, this is not the right opportunity.

Alpha has redesigned conventional instruction. Students complete academic coursework independently through AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing guides. Your position represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You design small-group reading workshops using real-time student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months center on earning credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) directly measure your success. As you establish your impact, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading framework evolves in tandem with adaptive tools. As Alpha opens new campus locations, the systems you develop become the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Prior to hiring, you will submit a brief video presenting an engaging story suitable for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus interacting 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
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your 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 subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in real time, not solely during preparation
• 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 guide; you create your own lessons using student data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students engage with academic subjects through adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled blocks consist of 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
  
  

Reading Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that measurably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes in 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 design independent reading lessons and clearly articulate instructional content and methodology, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work in person full-time 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)
• 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 visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Practical 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 outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other activities involving engaging a K-2 audience outside 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-Tulsa-ReadingProgram.020