Senior Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• On-site position in New York City, NY
• $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one.
• Considering relocation? We provide relocation assistance.
  
  

Do you believe authentic learning begins with joy, movement, and trust?

Alpha School is transforming education—helping children achieve academic mastery quickly so they can dedicate more time to building essential life skills. In Pre-K, this transformation begins with something even more critical: emotional security, curiosity, and the resilience to keep trying.

Your role: guide an in-person NYC Pre-K group that develops a love for school while achieving accelerated early-learning outcomes: approximately 2x the progress seen in traditional preschool settings. You'll create purposeful, sensory-rich play experiences that integrate developmental objectives, then track progress weekly and pivot quickly to meet each child's needs.

NYC offers: Parks for outdoor exploration, diverse neighborhoods with engaged family networks, exceptional public transportation, and proximity to leading early childhood education communities.

Create joy. Drive growth. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Plan and lead 30–60 minute play-based learning sessions that cultivate joy, emotional security, and quantifiable developmental progress
• Build a movement- and sensory-responsive classroom environment that sustains high engagement and supports four-year-olds learning through diverse modalities
• Observe and record in real time: Document same-day, objective observations linked to developmental domains, then refresh each child's milestone tracker weekly
• Let data inform your teaching: Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child's next developmental frontier and design responsive instructional strategies
• Create personalized, motivation-driven activity modifications based on individual interests, integrate one focused developmental objective, and reassess results within two weeks
• Support children through frustration using calm co-regulation and emotional guidance instead of reactive behavior management
• Share student progress, daily routines, and emerging observations clearly and proactively with families
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Approach PreK as childcare instead of purposeful early education
• Default to scripted worksheets or compliance-focused instruction as your primary method
• Spend most of your day supervising academic apps rather than facilitating live, hands-on learning
• Apply reactive behavior control instead of calm co-regulation and emotional guidance
  
  

Senior Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities

Ensure NYC Pre-K children develop a love for school while showing accelerated early-learning advancement through purposeful play.

Basic Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio certification
• At least 2 years of experience working with 3–5-year-olds in a structured group environment (classroom setting, not exclusively one-on-one care)
• Documented success leading play-based learning that produces visible developmental progress
• Confirmed ability to record developmental milestones objectively and reliably on a weekly schedule using a structured framework or rubric
• Strong relationship-building and emotional attunement: Capacity to establish trust rapidly, interpret emotional signals precisely, and apply personalized motivators to spark engagement
• Co-regulation and frustration scaffolding: Support children through emotional escalations using calm modeling and systematic emotional coaching
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Available to work full-time on-site in New York City, NY
  
  

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-5746-US-Brighton-SeniorEarlyChi.004