Co-Teaching Leader for Mastery-Based Classrooms

Crossover; Inglewood (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha reimagines the classroom by partnering with a district teacher to run the Alpha model together in public schools. You bring deep classroom experience and the ability to model new practices in real time, focusing on motivation, culture, and student ownership.

You'll design project-based workshops, coach your partner, and use live data to adjust approaches. This is a true partnership, not a handoff, with shared goals and mutual growth.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience as the primary teacher responsible for a full-size public-school classroom.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing other educators in a public-school setting.
• Experience personally designing and delivering a project-based learning unit from the ground up.
• Demonstrated ability to build a classroom culture based on student ownership, clear expectations, accountability, and motivation.
• Strong interpersonal judgment and the ability to influence experienced peers without relying on formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Co-leading the classroom with a district teacher: Co-own the day, student outcomes, and classroom culture while building a true working partnership with an experienced public-school educator.
• Building a student-led culture: Use clear goals, live data, relationships, peer accountability, and individual and group incentives to help students take increasing ownership of their learning and behavior.
• Designing project-based learning: Create original workshops that develop future-ready skills through hands-on projects, with clear objectives and ways to measure student mastery.
• Coaching through action: Model Alpha practices, give useful feedback in the moment, and help your partner teacher build the confidence and skill to lead more of the model over time.
• Acting on student data every day: Track whether students love school, learn at an accelerated pace, and build future-ready skills, then adjust your approach based on what the data shows.

Skills

3+ years teaching

Coaching educators

PBL design

Classroom culture

Influence without authority

Job description

Alpha reimagines the classroom by partnering with a district teacher to run the Alpha model together in public schools. You bring deep classroom experience and the ability to model new practices in real time, focusing on motivation, culture, and student ownership.

You'll design project-based workshops, coach your partner, and use live data to adjust approaches. This is a true partnership, not a handoff, with shared goals and mutual growth.