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. If maintaining high standards feels uncomfortable, this role isn’t for you. If you thrive on motivating young learners, read on.

Alpha students in grades K‑3 complete academic learning through AI‑powered applications for two hours each day. As a Guide, you work with one cohort band—either K‑1 or 2‑3—adjusting your approach, tempo, and workshops to fit that group. There are no lectures or worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback. Workshops are flexible;

you customize and create new ones as needed. 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 tools that sustain attention long enough to achieve learning.

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

Pass assessment for each life‑skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these measures means the role is not being fulfilled. In the 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.

• 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 homework, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent communication, and those tasks do not exist here

Ensure that every student in your K‑3 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 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 provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years of experience directly working with children ages 4 to 9 (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
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to let AI handle instructional…