Job Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site at an Alpha campus located 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 support available)
You are not a teacher. You are a motivator.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is refuse to accept it as complete. If that standard unsettles you, this isn't your role. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, K-3 students complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd) — and adjust your energy, rhythm, and workshops to fit that band. No traditional lectures. No worksheets. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. These workshops serve as a foundation, not rigid scripts — top performers adapt them to their cohort and create new ones when gaps emerge. The remaining half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness aren't optional extras; they're the mechanism for maintaining attention long enough to teach effectively. Warmth gives you permission to challenge. Challenging them proves you believe they're capable.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three means the role hasn't been fulfilled. In your first year, you'll master the system; once you demonstrate you can uphold standards, the opportunity opens to become a Lead Guide, coaching new hires while continuing to work directly with children.
If you prefer traditional teaching methods, want pre-made curriculum delivered to you, or think warmth and rigorous standards conflict, this role isn't for you. If you've excelled as an early-elementary teacher who loved circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and pure energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that's what excites you most, submit your application today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other lasting skills
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and supporting students who don't pass until mastery is achieved
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, quantifiable standards for second and third graders
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who won't allow them to settle for less
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering lectures at the whiteboard; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not your direct teaching
- Designing curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
- Passively monitoring kids at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
- Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest doesn't exist in this model
Elementary School Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning goals, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work 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 support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined goals
- Personal background of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's energy with young children — the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and movement
- Proven ability to transform shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants
About Alpha
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules. Alpha is 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.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. 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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5149-US-SaltLake-ElementaryScho.004