Elementary Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

Alpha School; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

Voluntary benefits

FSA

HSA

Commuter accounts

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha seeks an Elementary Learning Coach to guide K‑3 students through app‑based learning, diagnose reading gaps from running records, and design targeted literacy sessions that build confidence.

You will spend most of your day with students in classroom routines, workshops, and check-ins, with relocation support for on‑site work; legal eligibility to work in the US is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; teaching certificate not required
• Master's in reading or literacy preferred
• Completed structured-literacy training (LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS) or a master’s in reading/literacy
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• Willing to relocate to a campus with relocation support
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9, in roles like teaching, coaching, or tutoring

Responsibilities

• Get every K-3 student to daily learning goals and close reading gaps
• Lead structured-literacy sessions with small groups and diagnose gaps from running records
• Guide students through app-based learning and campus routines with engaging activities
• Deliver morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities
• Support lunch, recess, closing, and reading interventions with a proactive plan

Skills

On-site work readiness

Reading instruction

Student engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in any subject

Master's in reading or literacy

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

\"The sheer amount of time I get back from not having to make daily lesson plans and grade papers is huge.\" — Katie, Lead Guide, Alpha Denver

Alpha is hiring.

Current Openings

• CA - Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, and South Bay (Los Angeles)
• CT - Greenwich
• IL - Chicago
• MA - Boston
• WA - Seattle

What You Will Be Doing

• Coaching students through app-based core learning: spotting who is stuck, asking the question that unblocks them, holding the daily goal.
• Running targeted structured-literacy sessions with two to four students. Diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed, and checking for transfer.
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving.
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, closing, and reading interventions, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Writing lesson plans for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic.
• Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading groups are targeted, short, and part of the school day.
• Delivering a published curriculum or scripted program with fidelity to someone else's sequence.
• Writing IEPs, 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees.
• Slipping away to a prep block while someone else covers your students. You are with them launch to closing.

Elementary Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps stopping them from getting there alone.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at a campus listed above, with relocation support
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar settings where kids showed up because of you
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required
• Comfortable spending about 70% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and about 30% on targeted reading sessions
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You held a six-year-old's attention with nothing but your energy and an engaging activity
• You kept tired children coming back to an after-school reading program
• Parents asked for you by name
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can name a child whose decoding you fixed and how

Benefits and other compensation.

• Health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• life and disability insurance
• voluntary benefits
• tax-advantaged FSA
• HSA
• commuter accounts
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• parental leave
• A one-time relocation allowance

About Alpha

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

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

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 $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.