Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

$120,000 annual compensation, paid weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starts day one.

Considering a move? We provide relocation assistance.

On-site position in New York City, NY

$120,000 annual compensation, paid weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starts day one.

Considering a move? We provide relocation assistance.

Do you think authentic learning begins with joy, physical engagement, and trust?

Alpha School is redefining education by enabling children to accelerate through academics while devoting more time to developing essential life skills. In Pre-K, this foundation rests on something even more core: emotional security, curiosity, and the persistence to keep trying.

Your role: guide an in-person NYC Pre-K group that develops a love of learning while achieving accelerated early-learning outcomes roughly double those of conventional preschools. You ll create deliberate, sensory-rich play experiences that target specific developmental goals, then track progress each week and make rapid adjustments for individual children.

NYC:
Access to parks for outdoor learning, culturally rich neighborhoods with engaged family communities, best-in-class public transportation, and connections to leading early childhood education networks.

Create joy. Drive growth.

• Plan and lead 30–60 minute play-based learning experiences that foster joy, emotional security, and quantifiable developmental progress
• Build a classroom environment rich in movement and sensory opportunities that sustains high engagement and supports four-year-olds learning through varied modalities
• Observe and record in the moment:
  Document objective, same-day observations linked to developmental domains, then refresh each child s milestone tracker weekly
• Let data inform teaching:
  Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child s next developmental step and design responsive instructional strategies
• Create personalized, interest-driven activity modifications for individual children, integrate one specific developmental target, and reassess results within two weeks
• Support children through moments of frustration using composed co-regulation and emotional guidance instead of reactive behavior management
• Share student progress, daily routines, and emerging observations clearly and proactively with families

• Approach PreK as custodial care instead of purposeful early education
• Default to scripted worksheets or compliance-focused instruction as your primary method
• Spend most of your day supervising academic apps rather than facilitating live, interactive learning
• Apply reactive behavior management instead of calm co-regulation and emotional coaching

Ensure NYC Pre-K students develop a love of school while showing accelerated early-learning progress through purposeful play.

• Associate s or Bachelor s degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio credential
• Minimum 2 years of experience working with 3–5-year-olds in a structured group setting (classroom, not solely one-on-one care)
• Demonstrated success facilitating play-based learning that drives observable developmental growth
• Proven ability to document developmental milestones objectively and consistently on a weekly cadence using a structured framework or rubric
• Strong relationship-building and emotional attunement:
  Ability to build trust quickly, read emotional cues accurately, and use individualized motivators to unlock engagement
• Co-regulation and frustration scaffolding:
  Guide children through emotional spikes using calm modeling and structured emotional coaching
• Eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Ability to work full-time on-site in New York City, NY

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact:
Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters:
Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders:
Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It  for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult  for more details on this topic.