Reading Program Coordinator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annually, paid weekly, with immediate health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy training — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — opened doors to every K-2 reading role you pursued. In most positions, it also marked the limit: you delivered a pre-set program and tracked outcomes. At Alpha, the credential is where you begin. If that shift resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive platforms. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no pacing guides. Your function is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You build 20-minute small-group workshops using live app data; sessions are deliberately brief, because targeted precision outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to drive 100% of students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic weakness and redesign the next day's workshop before you leave campus. That is the expectation.

Families enrolling at these campuses selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly data on their child's reading progress, and they expect answers. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.

Your initial months center on proving your impact. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90% ) provide direct feedback. As you demonstrate success, your influence grows beyond your classroom: effective strategies you develop become models replicated across other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences how reading instruction scales as Alpha expands. Your contributions extend well beyond your immediate environment.

Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video in which you tell a compelling story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-2 reading workshops using real-time adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions designed to achieve 100% student completion of weekly app goals through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to refine instruction mid-day, not only during planning time
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains that appear in weekly campus data reviews
• Serving as the energetic, relatable adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
• Delivering lectures to a whole classroom; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; your daily work is in the classroom with students
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is documented through app data and your running records, not special-education paperwork
  
  

Reading Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate measurable K-2 reading improvement across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where performance is reviewed on a weekly basis.

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 within the past 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what and how you teach, independent of a published program
• Willingness to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

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 record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can cite with specific figures
• Experience administering diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) to inform differentiated grouping
• Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring with outcome-focused families)
• Background in performance, youth sports coaching, 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5632-US-Atlanta-ReadingProgram.007