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

• $100,000/year salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site at a single Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
  
  

You've invested years in structured literacy mastery. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading. You hear a miscue and immediately identify the phonemic gap. You can build a phonics lesson without a script. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you show up. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide: a captivating, high-energy presence children want to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your ability to engage a K-2 classroom for 20 minutes is what earns you the role. If "captivating, high-energy presence" doesn't fit you, this isn't the right position.

Alpha has reimagined traditional schooling. Students progress through academic content independently on AI-adaptive platforms — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position is the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops using live student performance data, and you lead motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on earning trust in the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% ) measure this directly. As you demonstrate success, your responsibilities expand: reading AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading approach develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the systems you build will serve as the blueprint for reading instruction across the country.

Before we extend an offer, you'll submit a short video of yourself telling an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus teaching K-2 students directly. Low energy with kids disqualifies candidates regardless of credentials. That's intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student data
• Running daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding measures to monitor progress and refine instruction for the next session
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in real time, not only during lesson planning
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see every day
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create your own lessons based on student data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students work through academic subjects using adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with children daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is dedicated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Assigning grades for homework or issuing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app data and your running records
  
  

Reading Tutor Key Responsibilities

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

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 field, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to develop your own reading lessons and explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to be on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to teach all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into everyday instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
  
  

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 review
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency growth in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience performing, coaching youth sports, 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 $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-FortWort-ReadingTutor.013