Literacy Specialist, Alpha

Overview

Alpha School is an AI‑driven K‑12 school network that uses adaptive applications to accelerate learning.

Salary: $120,000 per year, paid weekly, with health, dental and vision coverage from day one. Compensation per hour is $60. Full‑time, 40 hours per week, 100% classroom time.

Location:

One of the following campuses — Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, South Bay (LA), Greenwich (CT), Boca Raton or Miami Beach (FL), Chicago (IL), Boston (MA), Charlotte (NC) or New York City (NY). Relocation assistance available. The position is a contractor role in an independent contractor agreement with Crossover.

Your structured‑literacy credential — whether Orton‑Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master’s in reading instruction — opens the door to every K‑2 reading position you have pursued. At Alpha, that credential is the starting point. Here you will build 20‑minute small‑group workshops based on live app data, lead daily motivation sessions to ensure 100 % of students meet weekly app targets through Alpha’s framework, and adjust instruction within the day based on student performance.

Families enroll at Alpha for results and expect data‑driven accountability. You will field specific questions about individual student progress and provide detailed responses grounded in running records, phonemic deficits, and corrective plans. Your initial months focus on building credibility through engaging, leveled workshops that demonstrate measurable improvement. As you succeed, your strategies become templates for other Alpha campuses.

Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video telling an engaging story for young children and spend a full day on campus working directly with K‑2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you.

• Creating small‑group K‑2 reading workshops using real‑time adaptive‑app data, anchored in structured‑literacy approaches
• Leading daily motivation sessions that achieve 100 % weekly app goal completion across your students using Alpha’s motivational system
• Analyzing AI‑generated performance metrics to modify instruction throughout the day
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate measurable progress visible in campus data reviews
• Serving as the energetic, relatable adult your K‑2 students are excited to see every day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district‑mandated pacing guide; you create instruction from student performance data
• Delivering whole‑class lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted, small‑group settings while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district‑level specialist; you work directly with students in the classroom daily
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule: subject‑by‑subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data‑informed small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic documentation; student advancement is tracked through app data and running records, not special‑education paperwork

Generate measurable reading improvement in K‑2 students across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes are assessed weekly.

• 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 discipline, plus 2+ years of full‑time K‑2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to independently design reading lessons and clearly articulate what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Availability to work in person full‑time at one Alpha campus: (list of campuses)
• Openness to working…