What are the responsibilities and job description for the Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care about doing so. Closing that gap is your role.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No lectures, no worksheets. Half of your time is spent running one-hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback. A playbook exists for these sessions, but the strongest performers in this role adapt the material to their cohort and create new activities when the playbook falls short. The other half of your time is spent coaching students individually or in very small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and driving each student to complete 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns trust. Trust lets you push. Pushing signals that you believe they are capable.
A successful quarter means every student meets their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any one of those three means you missed the mark. In year one you learn and execute the playbook; once you demonstrate you can hold the standard, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, need a fully prescribed curriculum, or think warmth and rigor conflict, this role is not a fit. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure that every student in your K-2 cohort meets their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Basic Requirements
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-5634-US-RoundRoc-StudentSuccess.019
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No lectures, no worksheets. Half of your time is spent running one-hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback. A playbook exists for these sessions, but the strongest performers in this role adapt the material to their cohort and create new activities when the playbook falls short. The other half of your time is spent coaching students individually or in very small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and driving each student to complete 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns trust. Trust lets you push. Pushing signals that you believe they are capable.
A successful quarter means every student meets their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any one of those three means you missed the mark. In year one you learn and execute the playbook; once you demonstrate you can hold the standard, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, need a fully prescribed curriculum, or think warmth and rigor conflict, this role is not a fit. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the relationship you have built with each child.
- Administering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
- Meeting kindergarteners where they are—using songs, stories, movement, and playfulness—while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their potential.
- Delivering instruction from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; you animate it.
- Passively monitoring students as they use computers. Motivation here is active, personal, and unrelenting.
- Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a student can meet it. If a student is behind, the solution is coaching the student, not lowering the target.
- Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here.
Ensure that every student in your K-2 cohort meets their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a demanding standard is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with young children: the ability to hold the attention of a room full of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant young children into confident, active participants.
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-5634-US-RoundRoc-StudentSuccess.019
Salary : $120,000