Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles instruction. Your role is to help a child accomplish something they believed was beyond their reach.

At Alpha, students finish their academic coursework in only two hours daily through adaptive learning systems. This allows Guides to concentrate on transformational work: cultivating confidence, perseverance, communication skills, and the drive to take on difficult challenges. Your day won't involve standing before a class delivering content. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You’ll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The remaining half is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish coaching sessions with expanded belief in their capabilities.

This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver predetermined lessons or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone passionate about inspiring young learners, energized by quantifiable results, and convinced that the right mentor can alter a child's future. If you've motivated children as an educator, coach, camp director, youth mentor, or entertainer, a fundamentally different classroom experience awaits you here.

This is a full-time, on-campus position at an Alpha location. We conduct nationwide recruiting, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without an Alpha campus.

Available positions are in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA;
Greenwich, CT;
Boca Raton and Miami, FL;
Chicago, IL;
Boston, MA;
New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback, and other enduring competencies through hands-on engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide individualized and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, validated motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains on pace for challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2
  
  Pass system, continuing to coach students until they exhibit genuine competence—not merely attendance.
• Modify your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether through songs, physical activity, and narratives for younger children or increased autonomy and responsibility for older students.
• Establish relationships where students feel secure enough to push past their perceived limitations.

• Delivering academic instruction from the front of the room. Students acquire academic knowledge through adaptive technology.
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up. You’ll refine and customize established playbooks rather than designing new material.
• Observing students as they quietly complete computer-based work. Your function is hands‑on coaching, encouragement, and relationship‑building.
• Reducing standards when students face difficulties. Progress happens by elevating students to meet the target, not adjusting the target downward.
• Overseeing homework assignments, evaluating papers, or conducting standard parent correspondence.

Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, regularly meet challenging learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them for long‑term success beyond elementary education.

• Willing to work on‑site at one of Alpha’s campuses. Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA;
  Greenwich,…