Homeroom Teacher, Alpha

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• 40-hour work week over five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You recognize a miscue and can identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she never mastered, the blend he relies on guessing to navigate. That skill matters here every single day. The harder part comes immediately after—when a six-year-old sits in front of you on the verge of tears, and the correct response is almost always something other than giving them the answer.

Alpha operates nothing like the schools where you received your training. Students complete their full academic core in approximately two hours each morning through independent work on AI‑adaptive applications—no lectures, no textbooks, no curriculum pacing guides. Life‑skills workshops occupy the remainder of the day. Adults in this environment are known as Guides, not teachers, and the distinction is substantive: you are not responsible for content delivery.

Your role is ensuring students complete their work, remain motivated to do so, and receive support when the app cannot resolve their difficulty.

You remain with the same group of students throughout the entire day: morning launch through closing, including core learning, workshops, lunch, recess, and check‑chart sessions. This level of contact reveals information that formal assessments cannot capture. Within two weeks, you will identify which student is simulating fluency—reading the page smoothly because she has it memorized from Monday, not because she possesses decoding skills.

Once you locate the gap, no barriers exist between identification and intervention. No referral process, no committee review, no waiting list. You convene two to four students and deliver a fifteen‑minute workshop designed specifically for that error pattern—phoneme‑grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the situation requires—verify transfer has occurred, and return them to independent work.

You are not constructing lesson plans for twenty‑four children late into the night. Your planning is targeted and assessment‑driven: identifying who requires your attention tomorrow and determining what will produce measurable progress. You maintain the daily objective without quietly adjusting it downward, because parents review weekly data and will expect you to identify the specific gap.

Alpha continues opening campuses nationally, and the constraint is personnel capable of executing this model effectively. Those who demonstrate proficiency participate in hiring and training subsequent Guides and develop programming implemented across other campuses. Some advance to lead positions coaching teams, where the diagnostic thinking underlying the literacy work becomes the primary function. That trajectory is earned through performance, not granted at hire.

Your resume alone will not determine the outcome. If your strengths in this work have never translated cleanly to paper, that is precisely the point.

We conduct national recruitment, so job listings may appear in nearby cities without current campus locations. Active openings:

• AZ
  - Phoenix
• OK
  - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX
  - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT
  - Park City (Salt Lake City)

• Delivering targeted structured‑literacy workshops to groups of two to four students—identifying phonics or decoding gaps through running records and fluency assessments, designing instructional sequences to address them, and verifying transfer occurred
• Guiding students through app‑based core curriculum: identifying when students have reached an impasse, posing questions that enable progress, maintaining daily objectives
• Facilitating morning launch sequences, life‑skills workshops, and check‑chart routines that sustain engagement with six‑year‑olds
• Motivating students toward weekly app targets using school currency systems, leaderboards, and age‑appropriate gamification
• Remaining with your students through lunch, recess, and closing routines, addressing resistance and frustration with individualized strategies for each…