Reading Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• On-site at an Alpha campus in Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
• $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• Daily instruction supported by AI-powered tools and adaptive learning technology
  
  

You know that 20 minutes of precision-targeted reading instruction delivers more impact than 90 minutes of scripted curriculum, and your student outcomes confirm it. You've seen students move past persistent phonics obstacles because you identified the underlying gap yourself, not because a preset program dictated the next lesson. If building your own lessons from live student data feels like empowerment rather than burden, this role is worth your attention.

Alpha's reading instruction operates on one core principle: every minute counts. Your workshops run for 20 minutes and center on what each student genuinely needs right now, not what a curriculum calendar suggests they ought to need. You'll evaluate reading levels, organize focused groups, and provide high-impact structured literacy instruction (phonics, fluency, comprehension) to students aged 4-7 that produces measurable weekly progress. AI-driven adaptive tools work alongside you, producing performance data you'll apply to refine the next day's lesson before the current session concludes.

This position evolves. During your first year, you're fully engaged in the classroom: facilitating workshops, leading motivational sessions that convert hesitant readers into enthusiastic ones, and delivering detailed observations to the technology team improving Alpha's AI literacy tools. As those tools expand and your input influences their development, your influence reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to building a reading program that functions across campuses, transforming what you accomplish with 15 students into a framework that serves hundreds.

If you've dedicated your career to demonstrating that structured literacy delivers results and you're prepared to combine that knowledge with technology that magnifies it, this is where your influence breaks free from classroom constraints.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops based on your own diagnostic evaluation of each student's reading level and specific gaps
• Applying AI-generated student performance data to modify groupings and lesson emphasis between sessions, not only at quarterly intervals
• Facilitating motivational sessions that cultivate intrinsic reading motivation, incorporating age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
• Piloting and assessing AI literacy tools during live workshops, then delivering structured feedback to the technology team regarding effectiveness and limitations
• Monitoring measurable results (fluency improvements, decoding level progress, accuracy gains) and applying them to refine your methods on a weekly basis
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a scripted or prepackaged reading program. You identify needs and create instruction independently.
• Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-based literacy blocks. Sessions are brief, targeted, and high-intensity.
• Teaching exclusively struggling readers. You'll work with all K-2 students across varied reading levels.
• Working separately from technology. AI adaptive tools are integrated into your daily practice, not an occasional supplement.
• Waiting for quarterly data cycles to modify your instruction. You make adjustments in real time based on current data.
  
  

Reading Teacher Key Responsibilities

Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-enhanced structured literacy instruction.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (any subject)
• Master's 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 setting within the last 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Capacity to design your own reading lessons and articulate what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance available)
• Readiness to use AI and adaptive learning tools daily and adjust as tools develop
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated groups
• Documented history of measurable student reading gains you can articulate with specific data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G in one semester)
• Experience partnering with edtech teams, product teams, or instructional designers on tool creation
• Background in a startup, micro-school, or non-traditional educational setting where you developed systems rather than implemented existing ones
  
  

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-Boston-ReadingTeacher