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

• $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site position at a single Alpha campus location: 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 (we provide relocation support)
• 40-hour workweek, entirely in-classroom with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy training — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened doors to every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most roles, however, that credential also marked the limit: you executed a pre-built program and submitted reports. At Alpha, the credential is your entry point. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has redesigned instruction from the ground up. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position represents the one domain where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops using real-time data from the apps; these sessions are deliberately brief, because targeted precision outweighs duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification). When you catch a miscue during a session, you identify the underlying phonemic gap and have the next day's workshop redesigned before you leave. That is the expectation.

Families enrolling at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly updates on their child's reading development, and they form opinions. You will field specific questions about individual student progress, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference the running record, identify the phonemic weakness, and describe your intervention. This level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

Your initial months focus on establishing credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90% ) provide direct measurement. Once you prove yourself, your influence expands beyond your own students: successful methods you develop become templates for other Alpha campuses to implement, and your diagnostic precision influences reading instruction as Alpha scales. Your impact extends well beyond your classroom walls.

Before an offer is extended, you will submit a brief video in which you tell a captivating story for young children, and you will complete a full on-campus day 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 driven by live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational system (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency assessments, and decoding evaluations to generate progress visible in the weekly campus data review
• Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons based on student performance data
• Delivering lectures to a full class; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for other teachers, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with children daily
• Operating a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation. Your time is structured around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic documentation; student progress is tracked through app data and your running records, not special-education paperwork
  
  

Reading Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate measurable reading growth in phonics, fluency, and comprehension for K-2 students within a campus environment where outcomes undergo weekly review.

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, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to design your own reading lessons and clearly articulate your instructional content and methods, without dependence on a published program
• Availability to work in person 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 support provided)
• Readiness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-driven 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 improvements, decoding level progression) you can cite with specific numbers
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring where families closely monitor outcomes)
• Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise 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 $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-Houston-ReadingProgram.001