Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha

An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care. That gap is your role.

At Alpha, students in grades K–3 master academics through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshop delivery to match that band. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is dedicated to running one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the giving and receiving of feedback.

A playbook is provided, but top performers in this role adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half, you conduct 1:1 sessions or work with small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more shows them you know they can succeed.

A quarter is successful when every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2

Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three and you have not met the standard. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, want a ready-made curriculum, or think warmth and high expectations conflict, this role is not for you. If you have worked as 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 live Alpha students.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, adapting the playbook to your group rather than following it word-for-word.
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you have established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Meeting kindergarteners where they are through songs, storytelling, movement, and playfulness while maintaining real, measurable expectations for second and third 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.

• Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered by the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
• Babysitting children ivation in this role is active, personal, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it. If a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not to lower the goal.
• Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here.

Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• 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 9 (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…