Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha

An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her want to. Closing that gap is your work. At Alpha, K-3 students complete academic learning through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshops to fit that group. There are no lectures.

No worksheets. Half your day is spent running one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is provided, but the most effective Guides adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half of your time is spent sitting with students one-on-one or in small groups, reviewing Coachbot analytics, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals.

Warmth gives you permission to push. Pushing demonstrates your belief in their capability.

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

Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fall short on any of these three and the job was not done. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, the door opens to Lead Guide, where you coach newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a curriculum to be delivered to you, or view warmth and high expectations as incompatible, this role is not for you. 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 theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students.

Apply today.

• Running one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have built with each child.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while holding second and third graders to concrete, measurable expectations.
• Being the warm adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.

• Teaching from the whiteboard. Academic instruction is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
• Passively supervising children ivation here is active, personal, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly goal so a child can meet it. If a student is falling behind, the solution is supporting 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 every student in your K-3 cohort reaches their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that 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, or South Bay (LA), CA;
  Greenwich, CT;
  Boca Raton, 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 9 (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…