Early Childhood Educator, Alpha

$100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay and health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one. This on‑site position is available at Alpha campuses in Phoenix, AZ;
Oklahoma City, OK;
Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Austin, TX;
Fort Worth, TX;
Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance provided).

Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate. If maintaining high expectations for young learners feels natural to you, continue reading.

At Alpha, students in grades K‑3 complete academic learning through AI‑driven applications for two hours each day. As a Guide you work with one cohort band—either K‑1 or 2‑3—customizing your approach, tempo, and workshops. Half of your day facilitates one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback. The other half involves individual or small‑group coaching, analytics review, and guiding each child toward completing 100% of weekly application goals.

Enthusiasm and play are used to sustain attention, and warmth gives you permission to challenge.

A successful quarter requires every student to complete their weekly app targets, pass the Test2

Pass mastery for each life‑skills workshop, and report loving you at least 90% of the time. Meeting these metrics shows you can maintain standards and, after the first year, qualifies you for advancement to Lead Guide, a role that mentors new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer conventional teaching, prepackaged curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have experience as an early‑elementary teacher, camp counselor, youth sports coach, or performer who can command a room of kindergarteners, we encourage you to apply.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for groups of 10‑15 K‑3 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other enduring competencies.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions to maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha’s incentive structures.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass mastery evaluation for each life skill and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners with songs, narratives, movement, and playfulness while setting real, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at morning drop‑off and the adult who will not permit them to settle for less.

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you.
• Creating curriculum from scratch;
  Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it.
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistent.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution involves the student, not the goal.
• Scoring homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities.

Ensure every student in your K‑3 cohort completes weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Willingness to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• Minimum of 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early‑elementary instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal (goal, actions, and result).
• Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus.
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life‑skills coaching.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, children’s theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after‑school programs with direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
• Personal record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) demonstrating consistency in maintaining high standards for others.
• Natural performer’s energy with young children—the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physical movement.
• Demonstrated success transforming reserved or reluctant children into confident, engaged contributors.

Annual salary: $100,000 (weekly pay). Health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one. Relocation assistance is available at most campus locations.