Student Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; medical, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• In-person role at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching position. It is a motivation position.

The most helpful thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining the standard is how you communicate your belief in a student's ability, read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time will be spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. Around 30% of your time will involve meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and supporting each one to reach their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs the next week's coaching strategy. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops provide a foundation, and the strongest performers in this role customize them and create new ones when needed.

A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort achieve their weekly app targets, demonstrate measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role was not fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide — mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, where you would oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional classroom instruction, want a pre-packaged curriculum, or think warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you pushed students beyond their comfort zones, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational skills, customizing the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivation systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual rapport with each student to overcome reluctance
• Overseeing the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing scores until they succeed
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who respond to candid dialogue and personal accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on what the data reveals
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is housed in the applications, not in your instruction
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and infuse it with your own style and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic approval processes to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement the same day
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Student Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved working with you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership roles)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: what the goal was, your specific actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Demonstrated history of high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is natural for you, not performative
• Communication and presence skills strong enough to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Proven ability to transform disengaged or resistant students into active, willing participants
  
  

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-5607-US-PalmBeac-StudentLearnin.003