Student Success Coach, Alpha

AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care about doing so. Closing that gap is your role.

At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No lectures, no worksheets. Half of your time is spent running one‑hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback. A playbook exists for these sessions, but the strongest performers in this role adapt the material to their cohort and create new activities when the playbook falls short.

The other half of your time is spent coaching students individually or in very small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and driving each student to complete 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns trust. Trust lets you push. Pushing signals that you believe they are capable.

A successful quarter means every student meets their weekly app targets, passes the Test2

Pass for every life‑skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any one of those three means you missed the mark. In year one you learn and execute the playbook; once you demonstrate you can hold the standard, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, need a fully prescribed curriculum, or think warmth and rigor conflict, this role is not a fit. If you have been an early‑elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children’s theatre performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑2 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha’s incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the relationship you have built with each child.
• Administering the Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's mastery‑based assessment, for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Meeting kindergarteners where they are—using songs, stories, movement, and playfulness—while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders.
• 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 potential.

• Delivering instruction 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 students as they use computers. Motivation here is active, personal, and unrelenting.
• Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a student can meet it. If a student is behind, the solution is coaching the student, not lowering the target.
• Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here.

Ensure that every student in your K‑2 cohort meets their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying 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, South Bay (LA), 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 7 (early‑elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of 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.
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