Senior Pre-Kindergarten Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• Onsite position located in New York City, NY
• $120,000 annual compensation, distributed weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one.
• Relocating for this role? We provide relocation assistance.
  
  

Do you believe authentic learning is rooted in joy, physical engagement, and relational trust?

Alpha School is redefining education where children achieve academic mastery efficiently and invest greater time developing essential life competencies. In Pre-Kindergarten, this begins with something even more foundational: emotional security, natural curiosity, and the resilience to keep trying.

Your objective: guide an on-site NYC Pre-K group that develops a genuine love for school while demonstrating accelerated early-learning outcomes: approximately double the progress seen in conventional preschool settings. You will construct purposeful, sensory-enriched play experiences that integrate developmental objectives, then track progress on a weekly basis and pivot quickly for individual learners.

NYC offers: Parks ideal for outdoor instruction, multicultural communities with engaged family networks, exceptional public transportation, and proximity to leading-edge early childhood education resources.

Cultivate joy. Drive developmental progress. Submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Plan and lead 30–60 minute play-centered learning experiences that foster joy, emotional security, and quantifiable developmental advancement
• Establish a classroom environment rich in movement and sensory input that sustains high engagement and enables four-year-olds to learn across diverse modalities
• Conduct real-time observation and documentation: Record same-day, objective observations linked to developmental domains, then refresh each child's milestone tracking weekly
• Leverage data to inform teaching: Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child's subsequent developmental opportunity and design responsive instructional strategies
• Craft individualized, interest-driven activity modifications grounded in each child's motivations, integrate one explicit developmental target, and reassess outcomes within a two-week window
• Support children navigating frustration through composed co-regulation and intentional emotional coaching instead of reactive behavioral management
• Share student progress, classroom routines, and developing concerns transparently and proactively with families
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Approach PreK as supervised care rather than purposeful early education
• Default to scripted worksheets or compliance-focused instruction as your primary teaching method
• Allocate most of your day to overseeing academic applications instead of facilitating live, tactile learning experiences
• Deploy reactive behavioral control instead of composed co-regulation and emotional coaching
  
  

Senior Pre-Kindergarten Educator Key Responsibilities

Ensure NYC Pre-K children cultivate a love for school while exhibiting accelerated early-learning development through purposeful play.

Basic Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio credential
• Minimum 2 years of experience working with 3–5-year-olds in a structured group setting (classroom environment, not exclusively one-on-one care)
• Documented success leading play-based learning that produces observable developmental advancement
• Verified capacity to record developmental milestones objectively and reliably on a weekly schedule using a structured framework or rubric
• Advanced relationship-building and emotional sensitivity: Capacity to establish trust rapidly, interpret emotional signals precisely, and apply individualized motivators to activate engagement
• Co-regulation and frustration support: Assist children through emotional escalations using calm demonstration 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-SeniorPreKinde.001