2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha

Overview

AI-powered software can teach a six-year-old how to read. It cannot make that child want to. Closing that gap is your responsibility. Alpha's K–2 students complete academic learning through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and the exchange of feedback. A playbook is provided, but high performers in this role tailor it to their group and create new activities when gaps appear.

The remaining half is dedicated to sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates the foundation for high expectations. High expectations demonstrate your belief in their capacity.

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

Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate the ability to maintain standards, the pathway to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a fully prescribed curriculum, or view warmth and rigor 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.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep every student on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you've cultivated with each child.
• Administering Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass on the first attempt until mastery is achieved.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental stage with songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness, while simultaneously holding first and second graders to concrete, measurable expectations.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off and the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their potential.

• Delivering lectures from the front of the room. Academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with energy and adaptation.
• Passively supervising children ivation in this role is active, individualized, and consistent.
• Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the target.
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of 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, 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 goal, what you did, and the outcome.
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