Literacy Coach, Alpha

Compensation & Work Details

$120,000 annual salary, paid each week, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one.

Full-time position at a single Alpha campus:
Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA;
Greenwich, CT;
Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL;
Chicago, IL;
Boston, MA;
Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available).

40‑hour work week, entirely in‑classroom with students in grades K‑2.

Your structured‑literacy certification — whether Orton‑Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master’s in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K‑2 reading position you’ve pursued. In most, it also marked the limit: you executed a prescribed program and tracked results. At Alpha, that credential is where your work begins. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has replaced conventional teaching methods. Students advance through academic content individually using AI‑adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20‑minute small‑group workshops based on live app data; sessions are intentionally brief, because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students meet their weekly app targets through Alpha’s motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate gamification).

When you detect a miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic deficit and redesign the next day’s workshop before leaving campus. That is the expectation.

Families enrolled at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply attendance. Parents review weekly data tracking their child’s reading progress, and they ask questions. You will field specific inquiries about individual student advancement, and vague responses like "they’re doing fine" will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your intervention. That level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.

Your initial months focus on establishing credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct feedback. Once you establish success, your influence grows beyond your classroom: strategies that succeed with your students become templates for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs reading instruction as Alpha expands.

The systems you develop here extend well beyond your own students.

Before hiring, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K‑2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That requirement is intentional. Apply today.

• Creating small‑group reading workshops for K‑2 students using real‑time adaptive‑app data, rooted in structured‑literacy approaches (Orton‑Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions to ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app objectives through Alpha’s motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI‑generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning time
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate measurable gains reviewed at weekly campus data meetings
• Serving as the engaging, high‑energy adult your K‑2 students are excited to see each day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through…