Elementary Literacy Coach: Diagnose & Close Gaps (On-Site)

Alpha School; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha is hiring an Early Elementary Guide to join our on-site team. You will coach six-year-olds through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and implement short sequences you design to close them.

You work with the same students all day, from morning launch through reading interventions, with targeted literacy sessions for two to four students. Weekly data shows gaps to families; relocation allowance is available.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Reading instruction

Diagnostic assessments

Reading platforms

Student engagement

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha is hiring an Early Elementary Guide to join our on-site team. You will coach six-year-olds through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and implement short sequences you design to close them.

You work with the same students all day, from morning launch through reading interventions, with targeted literacy sessions for two to four students. Weekly data shows gaps to families; relocation allowance is available.