What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reading Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site position at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000 annual full-time salary, paid weekly
- Health, dental, and vision benefits effective day one
- Relocation assistance available
The 2-Hour Learning model at Alpha School integrates AI-adaptive software with expert human teaching. Students work through academic content independently using personalized applications. Lectures, textbooks, and pacing guides do not exist. Your function is the irreplaceable domain of human expertise: small-group reading workshops where you create and execute structured literacy instruction customized to each student's phonics and decoding level. You will leverage real-time AI-generated performance data to prepare each session, make immediate adjustments, and track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding progress.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that sustain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their coach and advocate, the individual who knows their name, interests, and exact position in their reading development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90% rate their Guide as someone they enjoy working with. This role emphasizes measurable results you can observe and document weekly, not curriculum coverage. As Alpha grows into new campuses, the systems you establish here will define reading instruction across the organization.
If you hold that structured literacy achieves optimal impact when personalized, data-informed, and taught by someone who genuinely engages a room of six-year-olds, this position embodies that conviction. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and develop targeted instruction
- Using AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, not only during planning periods
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly objectives
- Tailoring instruction across focused reading groups according to individual learning styles and requirements
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons driven by student data)
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom (all instruction occurs in small, focused groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students complete math, science, and other coursework independently through adaptive apps)
- Operating within a traditional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and standardized pacing guides
- Grading homework or report cards (student progress is monitored through app data and running records)
Provide structured literacy instruction that demonstrably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes in phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience creating original reading lessons (not solely relying on a published program)
- Willingness to utilize AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Experience utilizing AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Demonstrated ability to measure and communicate specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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-Houston-ReadingSpecial.046
Salary : $100,000