Early Childhood Educator, Alpha

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
• On-site position at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support available)

You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate. The kindest thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is to tell them it's not finished. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.

At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. As a Guide you work with one cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshops to fit that group. There are no lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback.

Workshops serve as a foundation, not a rigid script — the most effective Guides customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps appear. The other half of your day is spent working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not optional;

they are the tools that sustain attention long enough to achieve learning. Warmth grants you permission to challenge. Challenging them shows you believe they are capable.

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

Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role is not being fulfilled. In your first year you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, need a pre-built curriculum, or think warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position will not suit you. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can command a room of kindergarteners using voice, play, and sheer presence, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach actual Alpha students.

If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you establish with each child
• Administering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining measurable, real standards for second and third graders
• Serving as the warm, welcoming adult children are excited to see at drop‑off and the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best

• 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 intention
• Monitoring children passively while they use computers; motivation in this role is hands‑on, personal, and continuous
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can reach it; if a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not lower the bar
• Grading…