Reading Program Coordinator, Alpha

Job Overview

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, health/dental/vision coverage begins day one
• Full-time on-site role at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK;
  Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek spent entirely in the classroom with K-2 students

You've invested years developing expertise in structured literacy. Whether it's Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading, you can identify a student's phonemic weakness from a single miscue. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted curriculum. That expertise is the baseline. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is your ability to captivate six-year-olds. At Alpha, this position is fundamentally about being a Guide: a magnetic, high-energy presence that students are excited to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to command the attention of a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the role. If "magnetic, high-energy presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this position isn't the right fit.

Alpha has reimagined traditional schooling. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing calendars. Your role represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students achieve their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

The initial months focus on building rapport with your classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" feedback surveys (90%+ target) directly measure your success. Once you've established that foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance insights to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency growth and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive technology.

As Alpha scales to additional campuses, the systems you establish will serve as the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Our hiring process includes recording a brief video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, followed by a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies candidates regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops anchored in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student performance data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students meet weekly adaptive-app goals through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding probes to monitor progress and refine instruction for subsequent sessions
• Analyzing AI-generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not solely during advance planning
• Serving as the energetic, approachable adult your K-2 students are excited to see daily

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district pacing calendar; you build lessons directly from student performance data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted small groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is allocated to…