Instructional Coach, Alpha

Compensation and Benefits

• $100,000/year salary, distributed weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one.
• Based on-site at a single Alpha campus:
  Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Plano, TX;
  Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available).
• 40 hours per week, entirely classroom-based with K‑2 learners.

You've dedicated years to becoming fluent in structured literacy. Orton‑Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading. You can identify a student's reading error and pinpoint the exact phonemic skill to address. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted curriculum.

What sets you apart is that six‑year‑olds are genuinely excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide role first: a magnetic, high‑energy presence that students love learning with. Your structured‑literacy training opens the door; your capacity to engage a K‑2 classroom for a 20‑minute session is what earns you the position. If the phrase "magnetic, high‑energy presence" doesn't resonate with you, this role isn't the right fit.

Alpha has reimagined traditional schooling. Students progress through academic content independently using AI‑adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no curriculum pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise is irreplaceable. You create small‑group reading sessions driven by live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate game mechanics).

Your initial months focus on building classroom rapport. Sessions must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" feedback (target 90%+) directly assess your success. Once you've established credibility, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI‑generated performance insights to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency progress and decoding milestones to families, and contributing to how Alpha's K‑2 reading methodology evolves with the adaptive technology.

As Alpha grows to additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Before extending an offer, you'll submit a brief video in which you tell a captivating story for young children, and you'll participate in a full on‑campus day working directly with K‑2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies candidates, regardless of credential strength.

• Creating and facilitating small‑group K‑2 reading sessions rooted in structured‑literacy frameworks (Orton‑Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student performance data.
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students achieve their weekly adaptive‑app targets, utilizing Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate game mechanics).
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction.
• Analyzing AI‑generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not solely during advance planning.
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K‑2 students are excited to see each day.

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student performance data.
• Delivering whole‑class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications.
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to peers, or district‑level support specialist; you are classroom‑based with students daily.
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule — subject‑by‑subject instruction, homework corrections, test preparation; your scheduled time is dedicated to workshops,…