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 want to. Bridging that divide is where you come in.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academics through AI-driven apps over the course of two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No paper worksheets. You spend half your time facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops—public speaking, concentration, how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers customize it to fit their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day is devoted to 1:1 sessions and small-group check-ins: you analyze Coachbot data and coach each child toward completing 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth opens the door to accountability. Accountability signals your belief in what they can accomplish.
Success in a given quarter means every student reaches their weekly app targets, demonstrates mastery on the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report they love you. Fall short on any of the three, and the role's core objective has not been met. During your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain that standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a position in which you mentor newer team members while continuing to lead your own cohort.
This role is not suited to those who prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect a fully scripted curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a gift for circle time, camp counseling for young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the final interview stage is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K–2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting 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-Dallas-StudentSuccess.001
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academics through AI-driven apps over the course of two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No paper worksheets. You spend half your time facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops—public speaking, concentration, how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers customize it to fit their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day is devoted to 1:1 sessions and small-group check-ins: you analyze Coachbot data and coach each child toward completing 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth opens the door to accountability. Accountability signals your belief in what they can accomplish.
Success in a given quarter means every student reaches their weekly app targets, demonstrates mastery on the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report they love you. Fall short on any of the three, and the role's core objective has not been met. During your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain that standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a position in which you mentor newer team members while continuing to lead your own cohort.
This role is not suited to those who prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect a fully scripted curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a gift for circle time, camp counseling for young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the final interview stage is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K–2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies—customizing the playbook to suit 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 structures (campus currency, leaderboards), and the personal rapport you establish with each child.
- Administering Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill and providing targeted coaching to students until they achieve passing scores.
- Engaging kindergarteners through songs, storytelling, movement, and playfulness while simultaneously upholding clear, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
- Serving as the warm presence children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not accept less than their best effort.
- Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is embedded in the apps, not your instruction.
- Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
- Passively monitoring students at their devices. Motivation in this context is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the bar.
- Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or managing parent outreach. Campus Leads handle parent communication, and the other responsibilities do not exist in this model.
Ensure every student in your K–2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting 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, or Miami Beach, 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 were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids 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-Dallas-StudentSuccess.001
Salary : $120,000