Elementary Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Crossover; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health, dental, and vision startingDay

Job summary

Crossover is hiring an Elementary Learning Coach to deliver targeted literacy sessions for K-3 students at Alpha campuses. The role emphasizes diagnosing decoding gaps, designing short instructional sequences, and ensuring transfer of skills within a day-to-day schedule that includes life-skills workshops and campus operations.

On-site work with relocation support, you will guide groups of 2–4 students, monitor progress, and stay with the group through lunch and dismissal.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9.
• Minimum of 2 years teaching reading to students in grades K-3 in the past 5 years.
• Completed structured-literacy certification or master’s in reading or literacy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver targeted structured-literacy sessions with small groups of 2–4 students.
• Support app-based core instruction and maintain daily performance targets.
• Remain with a student group through lunch, recess, and dismissal to provide intervention as needed.

Skills

Reading instruction

Diagnostics

Group coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured-literacy certification

Job description

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Five-day, 40-hour workweek on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Five-day, 40-hour workweek on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You listen to a student read and instantly identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she skipped over, the consonant blend he substitutes without thinking. That skill matters here every single day. The harder part is what comes next. When a six-year-old sits frozen in front of you, fighting back tears, the correct response is rarely to give them the answer.

Alpha operates nothing like the school environments you were trained for. Students complete their full academic core independently in roughly two hours each morning using AI-adaptive applications — no direct instruction, no printed curriculum, no shared pacing calendar. The remainder of the day focuses on life-skills instruction. Adults at Alpha are titled Guides, not teachers, and that distinction is intentional: you do not present content. Your role is to ensure your students complete their work, engage willingly with their work, and resolve obstacles the software cannot address.

You remain with the same group of students from morning launch through dismissal: core academics, workshops, lunch, recess, reflection time. That sustained proximity reveals information a formal assessment cannot capture. Within two weeks, you will identify the student who appears fluent — reading a passage smoothly because she memorized it earlier in the week, not because she has mastered decoding.

Once you identify the gap, nothing prevents you from addressing it immediately. No referral process, no approval meeting, no wait list. You convene two to four students and deliver a targeted fifteen-minute session designed for that specific error pattern — phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the need requires — verify transfer, and return them to independent work.

You are not drafting lesson plans for twenty-four children late into the evening. Your preparation is focused and assessment-driven: identifying who needs intervention tomorrow and what instruction will produce measurable progress. And you maintain the daily standard without quietly compromising it, because families review weekly performance data and expect you to explain any shortfall.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationally, and the limiting factor is people capable of executing this model effectively. Those who demonstrate proficiency help recruit and train incoming Guides and design the instructional protocols other sites implement. Some advance into lead coaching roles, where the diagnostic reasoning behind literacy instruction becomes the primary responsibility. That progression is earned through performance, not granted upon hire.

Your résumé will not determine this outcome. If the skills that make you effective have never translated neatly onto paper, that is precisely the point.

We Recruit On a National Basis, So Job Listings May Appear In Nearby Cities Without An Active Campus. Current Openings Include

• AZ - Phoenix
• OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT - Park City (Salt Lake City)

What You Will Be Doing

• Delivering targeted structured-literacy sessions with small groups of two to four students — identifying phonics or decoding deficits through running records and fluency assessments, designing instructional sequences to address those gaps, and verifying skill transfer
• Supporting students through app-based core instruction: identifying when students have stalled, asking the diagnostic question that moves them forward, maintaining the daily performance target
• Facilitating morning launch routines, life-skills workshops, and check-chart protocols that sustain engagement for six-year-olds
• Motivating students toward their weekly application goals using school currency systems, competitive leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification strategies
• Remaining with your student group through lunch, recess, and dismissal, responding to avoidance and frustration with individualized intervention plans

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Developing nightly lesson plans for an entire class. Your preparation is targeted and diagnostic
• Operating a pull-out intervention caseload from a separate room. Reading instruction comprises approximately one-tenth of your schedule and occurs within the regular day structure
• Implementing a commercial program with strict adherence to an external scope and sequence
• Drafting IEPs and 504 plans, managing testing documentation, or participating in curriculum committee meetings
• Transferring your students to another adult during prep periods. You remain with them from launch through dismissal

Elementary Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every K-3 student reaches their daily learning targets, and eliminate the reading gaps that prevent independent progress.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, with relocation support available
• Minimum of 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp programs, youth activities, children's theater, or comparable environments where children participated because of your involvement
• Minimum of 2 years teaching reading to students in grades K-3, within the past 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy certification: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or equivalent; or a master's degree in reading or literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline. Teaching certification is not required
• Comfortable allocating approximately 90% of your day to guiding students through app-based instruction, workshops, and campus operations, and 10% to reading intervention sessions
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not exclusively struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You can sustain engagement in a room of six-year-olds using only your presence and a well-designed activity
• Exhausted children consistently returned to your after-school or summer program
• Experience with reading technology platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessment tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can identify a specific child whose decoding skills you remediated, and describe the instructional approach you used
• You have worked in a non-traditional educational setting: charter school, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid model

About Alpha

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’s 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.

Working with us

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-Phoenix-ElementaryLear