Literacy Program Coordinator, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

Salary: $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental and vision benefits starting day one.

Locations:

• Beverly Hills, CA
• La Jolla (San Diego), CA
• Malibu, CA
• Palo Alto, CA
• Piedmont, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Santa Monica, CA
• Seattle, WA
• Greenwich, CT
• Boston, MA
• New York City, NY

Hours:

40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with K-3 students.

Your structured-literacy certification — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-3 reading position you've pursued. In most roles, that credential also marked the limit: you delivered someone else's curriculum and tracked it. Here, the credential is where you begin. If that difference resonates with you, read on.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Students work through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. No lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops based on real-time app data; sessions are brief by intention, because precision is more effective than duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to propel 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

You catch a student's miscue during a session, identify the phonemic deficit, and redesign tomorrow's workshop by day's end. That is the expectation.

Families enrolled at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply attendance. Parents review weekly data on their child's reading development and they hold opinions. You will field direct questions about individual student progress, and "they're doing fine" will not suffice. You will need to reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your intervention. That level of accountability should energize you, not weigh you down.

Your initial months focus on proving yourself in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct measurement. As you establish credibility, your influence grows beyond your own classroom: what succeeds with your students becomes the template other Alpha campuses implement, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading is taught as Alpha expands.

What you create here extends far beyond your immediate environment.

Before we extend an offer, you'll submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus working directly with K-3 students. Low energy with kids will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength.

• Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops using live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions that drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app goals using Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension signal) to modify instruction mid-day, not only during pre-planning
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains visible in the weekly campus data review
• Serving as the relatable, high-energy adult your K-3 students are excited to see each day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, focused groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students every day
• Managing a traditional classroom block: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test prep. Your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and…