Educator, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

Alpha students complete their full academic workload in just two hours each day. This isn't an exaggeration—it's the foundation for why this position exists.

Academic instruction is delivered through adaptive software. What the software cannot provide is the encouragement a seven-year-old needs to believe she can accomplish more than she imagines possible—that's where you come in. In this position, you'll serve as a guide, dedicating your time to developing confidence, concentration, persistence, and a willingness to tackle difficult challenges in young children who are still mastering basic tasks like tying their shoes.

You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band: either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your day involves facilitating dynamic, hour-long workshops focused on essential life skills—public speaking, exchanging feedback, and sustaining attention. The remaining half is dedicated to coaching, both individually and in small groups, leveraging real-time learning data to ensure every child progresses toward an ambitious weekly target. Students should exit your workshops with enhanced capabilities and leave your coaching sessions believing they're capable of more than they previously thought possible.

A teaching credential or formal education background is not required. Some of our most effective educators in this role have backgrounds in youth athletics, children's theater, camp direction, and after school programming. We're seeking someone children naturally respect and want to impress—someone who can maintain high standards without diminishing a child's sense of self-worth.

This is a full-time, in-person position requiring five days per week at an Alpha campus. Because we recruit across the country, this posting may appear in nearby cities that don't currently host a campus.

• OK
  - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TN
  - Nashville
• TX
  - Austin and Plano
• UT
  - Park City (Salt Lake City area)

• Facilitate hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students actively practice communication, concentration, and feedback—engaging physically and verbally, not sitting passively through lectures.
• Provide individual and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot (Alpha's real-time learning-analytics platform) to identify precisely which students are falling behind and intervene before weekly targets become unreachable.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency through Test2
  
  Pass, Alpha's demonstration-based mastery standard, continuing coaching until a student can genuinely perform the skill—mere participation does not meet the standard.
• Adapt your methods to suit the developmental stage before you: incorporating songs, physical movement, and narratives for younger students; emphasizing independence, self-monitoring, and responsibility for 2nd and 3rd graders.
• Establish sufficient trust with each student so they're willing to attempt challenging tasks in your presence and persist when initial efforts don't succeed.
• Take ownership of your cohort's performance metrics. Your students' progress will be visible on a weekly dashboard, accessible to the entire team.

• Delivering academic instruction from the front of a classroom. Adaptive software handles academic content.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll customize and refine established frameworks, not develop them from nothing.
• Overseeing a quiet computer lab. If students are engaged in independent work while you remain inactive, something is amiss.
• Reducing expectations when a student encounters difficulty. You guide the student toward the objective—the objective never moves toward the student.
• Evaluating assignments, distributing homework, or managing standard parent communications.
• Operating remotely or on a part-time basis. This position requires on-site presence five days weekly at a campus location.

Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, consistently achieve ambitious learning objectives week after week, and graduate from elementary school equipped with critical life skills—confidence, focus, communication, resilience that will…