Early Childhood Educator, Alpha

Position Details

Salary: $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one.
Locations:
On‑site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
Oklahoma City, OK;
Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Austin, TX;
Fort Worth, TX;
Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT. Relocation assistance available.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for groups of 10–15 K‑2 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other transferable skills.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha’s reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and personal connections with each child.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha’s mastery‑based evaluation) for each life skill and supporting students who don’t pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see on arrival and the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

• Delivering lectures at the whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not through direct instruction.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up;
  Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it.
• Simply monitoring kids at computers; coaching here is active, personal, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the target.
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence;
  Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities and the other tasks don’t exist in this model.

Guarantee that every student in your K‑2 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Willing to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in the listed locations. Relocation support provided.
• Bachelor’s degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 8 (early‑elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• Can describe a specific example of motivating a young child to a hard goal, including the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life‑skills coaching.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children’s theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer’s presence with little kids — the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential. They are creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands‑on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. The compensation level is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. Payment is weekly. The position is immediately available.