Reading Specialist II

• $120,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
• On-site at one 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 support provided)
• 40 hours/week, 100% in-classroom with K-2 students

Your structured-literacy credential — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — got you in the door of every K-2 reading job you've applied to. In most of them, it was also the ceiling: you implemented someone else's program and reported on it. Here the credential is the starting line. If that distinction matters to you, keep reading.

Alpha has torn up traditional instruction. Students complete academic coursework independently on AI-adaptive apps. No lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your role is the one place a human expert is irreplaceable. You design 20-minute small-group workshops from real-time app data; the sessions are short by design, because precision beats length. You also run motivation sessions that drive 100% of your students to their weekly app goals using Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

You hear a student's miscue mid-session, pinpoint the phonemic gap, and have tomorrow's workshop redesigned by end of day. That's the standard.

Families at these campuses have chosen Alpha for outcomes, not just attendance. Parents see weekly data on their child's reading growth and they have views. You will be asked direct questions about how a specific student is progressing, and "they're doing fine" will not be an acceptable answer. You will need to point to the running record, name the phonemic gap, and explain what you are doing about it.

That accountability should feel like fuel, not friction.

Your first months are about earning the room. Workshops have to be fun, leveled, and visibly effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90%+) measure that directly. As you prove it, your scope extends past your own classroom: what works for your students becomes the pattern other Alpha campuses adopt, and your diagnostic rigor shapes how reading is taught as Alpha grows.

What you build here doesn't stop at your door.

Before we hire you, you'll record a short video telling an engaging story for young kids, and you'll spend a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Flat energy with kids won't pass, no matter how strong your credentials. That's by design. Apply today.

What you will be doing

• Designing small-group K-2 reading workshops from live adaptive-app data, grounded in structured-literacy methods (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Running daily motivation sessions that get 100% of your students to their weekly app goals using Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Interpreting AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension signal) to adjust instruction mid-day, not just in pre-planning
• Administering running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to produce gains visible on the weekly campus data review
• Being the relatable, energetic adult your K-2 students look forward to seeing every day

What you won’t be doing

• Following a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you design lessons from student data
• Lecturing to a full classroom; all instruction happens in small, focused groups and students complete academic subjects via adaptive apps
• Working as a reading consultant, coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with kids every day
• Running a traditional classroom block: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test prep. Your scheduled blocks are workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups instead
• Writing IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress lives in app data and your running records, not in…