Reading Teacher, Waypoint Academy

Required: recognized structured-literacy training or a master's degree in reading or literacy, plus recent K–3 reading instruction.

• In-person at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas. Relocation support may be available.
• $100,000 salary, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits.
• A full-day K–3 Guide role with targeted reading-specialist work.

This is not a traditional reading-intervention position. You will spend about 90% of the school day as a Guide, helping K–3 students complete AI-powered learning goals, build motivation and independence, manage frustration, and develop life skills. About 10% of your time will be spent delivering short, targeted structured-literacy interventions for specific phonics and decoding gaps. Your reading expertise will be the sharpest tool in a much broader student-facing role.

You will be with children throughout the day, including learning blocks, workshops, transitions, lunch, and recess. There is no standard planning period or fixed pull-out schedule.

• Coach K–3 students through AI-powered core learning, holding daily goals as non-negotiable while helping students work through frustration, distraction, and other blockers.
• Build strong relationships and run an energetic full-day student experience, including morning launch, life-skills workshops, transitions, lunch, recess, and closing routines.
• Use app data, brief diagnostic checks, and observed reading errors to identify specific phonics or decoding gaps.
• Design and deliver focused 15–20 minute structured-literacy interventions for small groups, then check that students can apply the strategy independently.
• Collaborate with the campus team and adapt quickly as schedules, staffing, and student needs change.

• Pulling small reading groups for most of the day or limiting your caseload to struggling readers only.
• Following a fixed published reading program without adapting instruction to the specific gap in front of you.
• Replacing the learning apps as the primary instructor or doing students' work for them.
• Working from a traditional specialist schedule with a standard planning period and limited responsibility outside reading blocks.
• Passively supervising students during learning time, lunch, recess, workshops, or transitions.

Help K–3 students complete ambitious daily learning goals, build independence and motivation, and close specific foundational-reading gaps through short, targeted structured-literacy interventions.

• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least three years working directly with children ages 4–9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar child-facing setting
• At least two years teaching reading to K–3 students within the last five years
• Completed recognized structured-literacy training or coursework, such as LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Fundations, UFLI Foundations, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or an equivalent program; a master's degree in reading instruction, literacy, or reading education also qualifies
• Willingness to work in person at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas, and relocate if needed
• Willingness to spend most of the day in a full-day Guide role, with reading intervention representing a smaller part of the schedule and no standard planning period
• Strong live presence with young learners, including the energy, warmth, clarity, and judgment to maintain high standards while helping students persist
• Ability to use student data to identify reading gaps, explain measurable outcomes, and adjust support or instruction
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship