Reading Interventionist, Alpha

Compensation and Benefits

$120,000 annual salary, paid each week, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one.

On-site placement at a single Alpha campus:

• Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA;
• Greenwich, CT;
• Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL;
• Chicago, IL;
• Boston, MA;
• Charlotte, NC;
• or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available).

Full-time, 40 hours per week, 100% classroom‑based with K‑2 students.

Contractor status: independent contractor with Crossover as Contractor of Record. Compensation $60 USD/hour, equating to $120,000 USD/year for 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. Payment period is weekly.

Alpha has discarded conventional instruction models. Students advance through academic content independently using AI‑adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position harnesses human expertise to create 20‑minute small‑group workshops using real‑time app data and to facilitate motivation sessions that guide all students toward their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, and age‑appropriate gamification).

You’ll catch a student’s error during a session, identify the phonemic deficit, and revise tomorrow’s workshop by the day’s end. This precision‑driven approach is the core expectation.

Families enrolled at these campuses rely on measurable results. Parents review weekly data on their child’s reading progress. You will be prepared for specific student questions and must reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. This accountability standard energizes our teachers rather than burdens them.

• Creating small‑group K‑2 reading workshops using live adaptive‑app data, grounded in structured‑literacy approaches (Orton‑Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent).
• Leading daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students reach their weekly app targets with Alpha’s motivational model.
• Analyzing AI‑generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction mid‑day, not just during planning periods.
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains evident in the weekly campus data review.
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult that K‑2 students anticipate seeing daily.

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons from student data.
• Delivering lectures to an entire classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps.
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district‑level specialist; you work in the classroom with children every day.
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject‑by‑subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data‑driven small groups.
• Preparing IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is documented through app data and your running records, not special‑education paperwork.

• 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 setting within the last five years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy.
• Proven capacity to design your own reading lessons and clearly articulate what you teach and how, independent of a published program.
• Willingness to work in person full‑time at one Alpha campus (listed above; relocation support provided).
• Willingness to work with all K‑2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive‑learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.…