2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha

AI can teach a six-year-old to read. What it cannot do is make that child care. That is where you come in. At Alpha, kindergarten through third-grade students complete their academic instruction through AI-driven applications in two hours per day.

As a Guide, you will lead one cohort band—either K‑1 or 2‑3—and shape your approach, pacing, and workshop delivery to fit that specific band. There are no lectures or worksheets. Half of your day is devoted to running one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is in place, but the most effective Guides adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear.

The other half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. Your warmth earns the trust that allows you to push, and your push signals that you believe in their capacity to succeed.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2

Pass for each life‑skills workshop, and 90% or more of the cohort report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three metrics and the job is incomplete. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate the ability to maintain the standard, the pathway opens to Lead Guide, where you will mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

• Facilitate one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑3 cohorts on topics such as public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conduct daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions that keep every student on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha’s incentive structures.
• Administer Alpha’s mastery‑based assessment, the Test2
  
  Pass, for each life skill, and support students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Engage kindergarteners where they are—in songs, stories, movement, and playfulness—while simultaneously holding second and third graders to real, quantifiable standards.
• Serve as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop‑off and as the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

• Teaching from the front of the room; academic content is delivered through the apps.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up;
  Alpha supplies the playbook.
• Passively monitoring kids on computers; motivation here is active, personalized, and sustained.
• Adjusting a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to meet; coaching is the solution when a student falls behind.
• Grading homework, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent communications; these tasks are managed by campus leads.

• Willingness to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, or Massachusetts (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor’s degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4 to 9—early‑elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership.
• Ability to describe a specific example of motivating a young child to a hard goal, including the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle instructional content while you focus on motivation and life‑skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children’s theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after‑school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer’s presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

• Full‑time (40 hours per week) position that starts immediately.
• Independent contractor agreement via Crossover with weekly payment.
• Compensation of $60 USD per hour, equivalent to $120,000 USD per year (40 hrs per week, 50 weeks per year).