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

• 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, distributed weekly
• Health, dental, and vision benefits begin immediately
• Relocation assistance available
  
  

You have dedicated years to becoming proficient in structured literacy. When a student makes a reading error, you can immediately identify the underlying phonemic weakness. Yet you have also witnessed how the surrounding system underutilizes that skill: classrooms with over 25 students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized programs that disregard what your assessments reveal. If you have ever considered, "I could accelerate these children's progress significantly if I could simply teach according to the data," this opportunity is for you.

Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-adaptive technology with specialized human teaching. Students progress through academic content autonomously using individualized applications. There are no traditional lectures, printed textbooks, or mandated pacing schedules. Your focus centers on the one area where human expertise remains essential: targeted reading workshops in small groups, where you create and implement structured literacy lessons matched to each learner's phonics and decoding stage. You will utilize live AI-generated performance analytics to structure each session, modify instruction dynamically, and track outcomes through fluency improvements, accuracy gains, 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 guide, their advocate, the individual who recognizes their identity, their passions, and precisely where they stand in their literacy development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and over 90% identify their Guide as someone they trust and enjoy learning with. This role emphasizes measurable results you can observe and track weekly, not content coverage. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the systems you develop will serve as the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves optimal impact when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically connects with young learners, this role transforms that conviction into daily practice. Submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding strategies, and writing for K-2 learners
• Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's current reading level and inform focused instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction dynamically, not only during scheduled planning periods
• Leading motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of weekly targets
• Customizing instruction within targeted reading groups according to individual learning profiles and requirements
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading program or scripted lesson plans (you create your own instruction using student data)
• Presenting lessons to an entire class (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
• Instructing academic content areas (students work through math, science, and other subjects independently using adaptive applications)
• Operating within a conventional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and uniform pacing expectations
• Evaluating homework assignments or issuing report cards (student advancement is monitored through application data and running records)
  
  

Reading Teacher Key Responsibilities

Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding skills.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
• 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the past 5 years
• Experience creating original reading lessons (not exclusively following a published program)
• Willingness to incorporate AI and adaptive learning platforms for instructional planning and student data interpretation
• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not exclusively struggling readers
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience incorporating AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Demonstrated ability to quantify and communicate specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency improvements in WCPM, decoding level progression)
• Experience teaching in non-traditional or innovative educational environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Fluency in both English and Spanish
  
  

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-Alexandr-ReadingTeacher