Education Coach, Alpha

Overview

This is not a teaching role. This is about motivation. Alpha School uses AI-driven applications for student learning with no lectures or textbooks. The role focuses on life-skills coaching and student motivation within K-8 cohorts.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts, covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational skills. Modify the existing playbook and create new sessions as needs are identified.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to drive students toward their weekly app targets, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha rewards, and personal relationships to overcome resistance.
• Administering Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha s mastery-based life-skills assessment) and coaching students who do not achieve passing scores until mastery is demonstrated.
• Adjusting coaching approaches across a broad age range from kindergarteners to 8th graders, balancing dynamic engagement with direct conversation and accountability.
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, identifying students behind targets, and recalibrating coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on data insights.

• Delivering traditional instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the apps.
• Creating a full curriculum from scratch; starting with an established playbook and personalizing it.
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation is hands-on and individualized.
• Working through layers of approval to secure support for students in need; you decide and implement when extra coaching is required.
• Grading assignments or handling broad parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent communication.

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year with appreciation for your guidance.

• 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 Beach, FL;
  Palm Beach Gardens, FL;
  Chicago, IL;
  Raleigh, NC;
  Portland, OR (relocation support available).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result.
• Comfort with AI delivering academic instruction while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development.
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs with direct responsibility for driving measurable goals.
• History of personal excellence that supports holding others to rigorous standards.
• Narrative skill and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice.
• Demonstrated success transforming disengaged or reluctant students into participants.

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that uses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential. Alpha emphasizes mastery of core academics in two hours a day, with time for hands-on, passion-driven learning.

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position requiring an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation is $60 USD/hour, equating to $120,000 USD/year, with weekly pay. For details, see the Crossover help and FAQs.

Job Code: LJ-5607-US-Austin-Education Coach.
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