Literacy Specialist, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 40-hour work week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance provided

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 40-hour work week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance provided

You can catch a miscue and identify the underlying gap: the vowel team that was never mastered, the blend that gets guessed instead of read. You will apply that skill daily. The harder part comes immediately after. When a six-year-old sits in front of you, nearly in tears, the correct response is rarely to simply provide the answer.

Alpha operates unlike any school where you likely trained. Students complete their full academic core in roughly two hours each morning through independent work on AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Life-skills workshops fill the remainder of the day. Adults at Alpha are called Guides instead of teachers, and the distinction is intentional: you are not there to deliver content.

You ensure students engage with their work, develop motivation to complete it, and navigate obstacles the app cannot resolve.

You remain with the same group of students from morning launch through closing: core learning sessions, workshops, lunch, recess, and check-chart time. This level of contact reveals what a running record cannot. Within two weeks, you will identify which student is faking fluency — reading the page smoothly because she memorized it days earlier, not because she can actually decode it.

Once you identify the gap, there are no barriers to addressing it. No referral process, no committee approval, no waiting for availability. You gather two to four students and deliver a targeted fifteen-minute workshop designed for that precise error pattern — phoneme-grapheme mapping, blending drills, decodable text, whatever the situation demands — verify the skill transferred, then return them to independent work.

You will not be writing lesson plans for two dozen children late into the night. Your planning is focused and diagnostic: identifying who requires support tomorrow and determining what intervention will actually advance them. You maintain the daily goal without quietly reducing expectations, because parents review weekly data and will expect you to explain any gaps.

Alpha is launching campuses nationwide, and the constraint is finding people who can execute this well. Those who demonstrate competence help recruit and train incoming Guides and develop programs that other campuses implement. Some advance into lead roles coaching teams, where the judgment underlying literacy work becomes the primary responsibility. That progression is earned through performance, not granted automatically.

Your resume alone will not determine the outcome. If what makes you effective at this work has never translated neatly onto paper, that is precisely the point.

We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this role in nearby cities without campuses. Current openings:

• AZ
  - Phoenix
• OK
  - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX
  - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT
  - Park City (Salt Lake City)

• Facilitating targeted structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — identifying phonics or decoding gaps through running records and fluency probes, designing and teaching a targeted sequence, and verifying transfer of skills
• Guiding students through app-based core learning: identifying who has stalled, asking questions that help them progress, maintaining daily goals
• Facilitating morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check‑chart activities that maintain engagement with six‑year‑olds
• Motivating students toward their weekly app goals through school currency, leaderboards, and age‑appropriate gamification
• Remaining with your students throughout lunch, recess, and closing, addressing refusal and frustration with individualized plans for each child

• Writing nightly lesson plans for an entire class. Your planning is focused and diagnostic
• Managin…