Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

The most challenging aspect of this role is knowing when not to teach. You will sit beside a six-year-old who is stuck and frustrated, and the correct response is rarely to hand them the answer.

You remain with the same group of students throughout the day. Morning launch, app-based core learning, lunch, recess, life-skills workshops, and closing. By Tuesday, you will know which child is masking a gap in fluency. Once you identify it, you do not wait for a referral or a meeting. You gather two to four students, deliver the fifteen-minute targeted lesson you designed for that specific gap, and observe as it closes.

Core instruction is delivered through the apps, so you are not drafting lesson plans for twenty-four students late into the night. You determine who needs your intervention and what will advance them, and you maintain the daily goal without compromise. "She's doing fine" is insufficient here; parents receive weekly data and will expect you to articulate the gap.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationwide. Those who demonstrate success in this role go on to hire and train incoming staff, and establish the curriculum standards that other campuses adopt. Some advance into lead roles coaching that team, where the diagnostic judgment behind the literacy work becomes the central focus.

Your resume alone will not determine your fit. Prior to an offer, you will record a brief video telling a story to young children, then complete a full day on campus. If your strengths in this work have never translated well to paper, that is intentional.

This is a full-time, on-site position, five days per week, at an Alpha campus. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities where we do not currently operate a campus.

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

• Guiding students through app-based core learning: identifying who is struggling, asking the question that moves them forward, and maintaining the daily goal.
• Conducting short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students. Identifying a phonics or decoding gap through running records and fluency probes, delivering a sequence you created, and verifying transfer.
• Facilitating morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that maintain momentum for six-year-olds.
• Motivating students toward their weekly app goals using school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Remaining with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, addressing frustration and refusal with a tailored plan for that child.

• Drafting lesson plans for an entire class each night. Your planning is targeted and diagnostic.
• Managing a pull-out caseload from a separate intervention room. Reading groups occupy roughly a tenth of your week and occur within the school day.
• Implementing a published curriculum or scripted program with fidelity to another's sequence.
• Completing IEPs, 504 plans, pursuing testing paperwork, or participating in curriculum committees.
• Stepping away to a prep period while another staff member supervises your students. You remain with them from launch to closing.

Ensure every K-3 student reaches their daily learning goals, and eliminate the reading gaps preventing them from achieving those goals independently.

• Willing to work on-site at a campus listed above, with relocation support
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or comparable settings where children engaged because of you
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required
• Comfortable dedicating approximately 90% of your day to guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% to reading sessions
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not exclusively struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

• You captured a six-year-old's attention with only your energy and an engaging activity
• You sustained participation among tired children in an after-school reading program
• Parents requested you by name
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can describe a child whose decoding you corrected and the method you used

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.