- $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
- On-site at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
- 40 hours/week, 100% in-classroom with K-2 students
Your edge is that six-year-olds light up when you walk in the room. At Alpha, this role is a Guide first: a compelling, energetic presence kids love working with. Your reading expertise gets you in the door; your ability to hold a K-2 group rapt for a 20-minute workshop is what gets you hired.
Alpha has torn up traditional instruction. Students complete academic coursework independently on AI-adaptive apps, with no lectures, textbooks, or pacing guides. You design small-group reading workshops from real-time performance data and run motivation sessions that drive students to hit their weekly app goals using school currency, leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification.
Your first months are about earning the room. Workshops must be fun, leveled, and visibly effective. Student satisfaction and "love your Guide" surveys measure that directly. As you prove it, your scope grows: interpreting AI-generated data to adjust instruction, reporting fluency and decoding gains, and shaping Alpha's K-2 reading approach as the adaptive tools evolve.
Before we hire you, you'll record a short video telling an engaging story for young kids and spend a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Flat energy with kids won't pass, no matter how strong your credentials. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Designing and leading small-group K-2 reading workshops grounded in structured-literacy methods (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), built from real student data
- Leading daily motivation sessions that drive 100% of your students to hit their weekly adaptive-app goals, using Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Administering and analyzing running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to track gains and adjust next-session instruction
- Interpreting AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning apps to differentiate instruction in real time, not just in pre-planning
- Being the relatable, energetic adult your K-2 students look forward to seeing every day
- Following a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you design your own lessons from student data
- Lecturing to a full classroom; all instruction happens in small, focused groups and students complete academic subjects via adaptive apps
- Working as a reading consultant, coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with kids every day
- Running a traditional classroom block - subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test prep; your scheduled blocks are workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups instead
- Grading homework or report cards; student progress lives in app data and your running records
Deliver structured-literacy instruction that measurably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any subject, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction within the past 5 years in a school or clinical setting, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Demonstrated ability to design your own reading lessons and articulate what you teach and how, without relying on a published program
- Demonstrated ability to measure reading progress and explain specific student gains in areas such as fluency, accuracy, phonics, or decoding
- Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to integrate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Hands-on experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for planning or student data analysis
- Background in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Background performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise holding a K-2 audience outside the reading classroom