Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

The lessons children learn in school often fade. What stays with them is the adult who truly believed they could do more. That is what this role is about.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work in only two hours each day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their energy to what transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to take on difficult challenges. You will not be standing at the front of a room delivering lessons. Instead, your day will be spent guiding students through obstacles, acknowledging their progress, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief.

You will oversee a single K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time is devoted to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and giving feedback. The remaining time is spent providing individualized and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child advances toward ambitious weekly targets. Every moment counts.

Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave your coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own potential.

This position is not suited for someone seeking to deliver prepared curriculum or simply manage a classroom. It is designed for someone who is energized by motivating young learners, values measurable progress, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you have inspired children as an educator, athletic coach, camp counselor, youth program leader, or performer, you will discover a fundamentally different kind of learning environment here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We conduct national recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities that do not currently host a campus.

Current openings at this salary level are located in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that support K-3 students in mastering communication, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills through active engagement rather than passive instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and strong relational connections to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill mastery using Alpha's Test2
  
  Pass framework, continuing to coach students until they show genuine understanding—not merely attendance.
• Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, movement, and narratives for younger children or increased independence and responsibility for older students.
• Cultivate relationships in which students feel sufficiently supported to push past what they previously believed they could accomplish.

• Presenting academic lessons from a whiteboard. Students complete their academics using adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You will refine and customize proven instructional playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
• Supervising students as they work quietly on computers. Your responsibility is active coaching, encouragement, and relationship-building.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulty. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the standard, not by lowering the standard.
• Administering homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent correspondence.

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about school, reliably meet ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings at this salary level are located in Scottsdale, AZ;
  Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate young children toward challenging objectives, with concrete examples of your influence.
• Comfort leveraging AI-powered learning tools while concentrating your own efforts on coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistent, high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education,…