Learning Coach, Alpha

AI can teach a six-year-old to decode words. It cannot make her want to. Closing that gap is what you do.

At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in a two-hour block each day. No direct instruction. No paper drills. Half your time is devoted to facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops—public speaking, attention management, and how to give and receive feedback. A structured guide exists, but the strongest coaches tailor it to their group and build new exercises when the existing ones fall short.

The rest of your time is spent coaching students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding every child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates trust. Trust gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more proves you know they can reach it.

You succeed in a quarter when all students meet their weekly app targets, demonstrate mastery on the Test2

Pass for each life skill, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any one metric and the role was not fulfilled. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the next step is Lead Guide, where you mentor incoming hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer conventional classroom teaching, expect a curriculum delivered in full, or see warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role is not for you. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on community circles, camp counseling for young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the last stage before an offer is a shadow day working with actual Alpha students.

Submit your application now.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K–2 cohorts, covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, tailoring the existing playbook rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching conversations that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app targets, informed by Coachbot data, Alpha's incentive architecture (digital currency, leaderboards), and the personal rapport you establish with each child.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's mastery assessment, for every life skill, and providing ongoing coaching to students until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor while maintaining rigorous, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
• Serving as the warm presence children are excited to greet each morning and the adult who will not accept less than their best effort.

• Delivering lessons from the front of the room. Academic content is embedded in the software, not delivered by you.
• Designing curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the framework; your role is to animate it.
• Passively monitoring students ivation at Alpha is intentional, individualized, and continuous.
• Adjusting a weekly target downward to allow a student to meet it. When a child is struggling, the solution involves supporting the child, not revising the goal.
• Marking assignments, preparing for standardized exams, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks are not part of this model.

Guarantee that every student in your K–2 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in 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, or South Bay (LA), CA;
  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…