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

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK;
  Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with kindergarten through second-grade students

You've invested years perfecting structured literacy. Whether it's Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can detect a student's miscue and pinpoint the exact phonemic weakness to address. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted curriculum. That's the baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are genuinely excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is Guide first: a captivating, high-energy presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to engage a K-2 classroom for a full 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "captivating, high-energy presence" doesn't fit you, this role isn't right.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students work through academic material independently on AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position is the singular point where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops using live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that push 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on winning the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" surveys (90%+ target) directly measure success. Once you establish that foundation, your responsibilities expand: reading AI-generated performance analytics to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency progress and decoding milestones to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading strategy develops alongside adaptive technology.

As Alpha opens new campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the country.

Before hiring, you'll submit a short video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children is disqualifying, regardless of credential strength. That's intentional.

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that propel 100% of your students toward their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to personalize instruction dynamically, not only during advance planning
• Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons based on student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to other educators, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is structured around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
• Scoring homework or issuing report cards; student advancement is captured in app analytics and your running records

Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding.

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus:
  Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK;
  Fort Worth…