2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha

AI can teach a six‑year‑old to read. What it cannot do is make that child care. That is where you come in. At Alpha, kindergarten through third‑grade students complete their academic instruction through AI‑driven applications in two hours per day. As a Guide you will lead one cohort band—either K‑1 (Kindergarten and 1st grade) or 2‑3 (2nd and 3rd grade)—and shape your approach, pacing, and workshop delivery to fit that specific band.

There are no lectures or worksheets. Half of your day is devoted to running one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and how to give and receive feedback. The other half is spent working individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. Your warmth earns trust, and your push signals that you believe in their capacity to succeed.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you have built with each child.
• Administering Alpha's mastery‑based assessment, the Test2
  
  Pass, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners where they are—with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness—while simultaneously holding second and third graders to real, quantifiable standards.
• 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 than their best.

• Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; you animate it.
• Passively monitoring kids on computers. Motivation in this role is active, personalized, and sustained.
• Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to meet. When a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the target.
• Grading homework, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent engagement, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Ensure that every student in your K‑3 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in 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).
• Ability to describe 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 life‑skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after‑school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer’s presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. Compensation is $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD per year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. Payment is made weekly.