Personalized Learning Guide K-2, Alpha

Overview

On‑site role at an Alpha School campus:
Chicago, IL;
Miami, FL;
Piedmont, CA;
Santa Monica, CA;
Lake Forest, CA;
Boston, MA;
Palo Alto, CA;
San Francisco, CA;
Greenwich, CT. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

Annual compensation of $120,000, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one.

Aligned with the school‑year calendar and predictable daily hours.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Academic learning happens through adaptive software that adjusts to each student's current level and progresses at their individual pace. There are no teacher‑led lessons. Instead, each child advances through personalized learning applications while you—their Guide—support them through the challenging moments: maintaining focus when the content becomes difficult, working through frustration, and recognizing true mastery rather than mere effort.

Your day begins with motivational sessions: analyzing each student's performance in their learning applications, establishing daily objectives, and identifying the right motivational approach for each child. The afternoon transitions to life skills workshops where you facilitate instruction in public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback through project‑based, interactive activities. You conduct mastery‑based evaluations (Test2

Pass) where students must prove they have truly absorbed the skill, not simply attended the session.

Guides who excel in this role advance to Lead Guide positions, mentoring teams of Guides while continuing direct work with their own student cohort.

• Conduct daily motivational sessions with K‑2 students: analyzing Coachbot data, establishing personalized objectives, and applying Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, individual coaching) to achieve 100% goal attainment.
• Facilitate one‑hour life skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, constructive feedback exchange, and time management—all experiential and project‑driven, adhering to Alpha's curriculum framework.
• Guide emotional self‑regulation, resilience, and critical thinking in collaboration with Reading Specialists responsible for literacy development.
• Oversee Test2
  
  Pass mastery evaluations where students prove comprehension and internalization of each life skill prior to progression.
• Establish authentic connections with every student by understanding their passions, capabilities, and challenges so your guidance is tailored, not formulaic.

• Teaching from the front of the classroom or providing direct academic instruction. Academic content is delivered through adaptive applications.
• Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the life‑skills curriculum and lesson frameworks; your role is to execute them effectively.
• Advancing students who haven't proven mastery. If they achieved 99%, you guide them to 100%.
• Supervising children passively while they use computers. Every moment is intentionally structured around active guidance, motivation, and competency development.
• Handling parent communications or campus‑wide logistics. Those responsibilities belong to the Campus Lead.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in any discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years working directly with children ages 4–7 (classroom settings, after school programs, youth coaching, camp environments, or comparable contexts).
• Proven ability to manage groups of young children with clear structure while maintaining high engagement levels.
• Engaging storyteller and dynamic presenter capable of capturing and holding the attention of 5‑year‑olds.
• Track record of incorporating feedback to drive continuous personal improvement.
• Relocation:
  Available to work on‑site at any Alpha campus listed above. Relocation support provided.
• Current legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

• Experience in youth sports coaching, camp program leadership, or after school coordination with measurable outcomes.
• Background in performance disciplines (theater, public speaking, improvisational…