Instructional Facilitator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Crossover; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

In-person collaboration

Job summary

Alpha is hiring experienced public-school educators to lead a full classroom in partnership with a district teacher. You will focus on motivation, culture, coaching, and developing future‑ready skills, rather than traditional lecturing.

This role emphasizes collaboration with a district partner and hands‑on implementation of Alpha's learning model. In Springfield, MA or Houston, TX, the position is in‑person as a full‑time W2 employee with an annual salary of $100,000.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience as the primary teacher responsible for a public‑school class of 20-30 students.
• Bachelor's degree and a teaching license from any state are required.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing other educators in a public‑school setting.
• Experience designing and delivering a project‑based learning unit with clear objectives and assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to build a classroom culture based on ownership, clear expectations, accountability, and motivation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strong student outcomes in a full public‑school classroom while helping a district teacher build the capability and confidence to run Alpha's model increasingly independently by the end of the school year.
• Co‑own the day and classroom culture with a district teacher to achieve outcomes.
• Design project‑based learning workshops to develop future‑ready skills and measure mastery.
• Coach through action and model Alpha practices for the partner teacher.
• Use student data daily to adjust instruction and improve progress.

Skills

Classroom management

Curriculum design

Project-based learning

Mentoring educators

Stakeholder communication

In-person collaboration

US work authorization

Education

Bachelor's degree in any subject

Teaching license from any state

Job description

$100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks ($50 USD/hour)

"This is not a school that is replacing teachers. This is not a threat to teachers in any way, shape, or form. This is reimagining what a teacher can be."
— Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas

Alpha is hiring.

In-person | Springfield, MA or Houston, TX | Full-time W2 employee | $100,000 annual salary

What if the best way to change a public‑school classroom isn't to change the teacher, but to work alongside them?

Alpha is bringing its learning model into public schools, and we need experienced public‑school educators who know what it takes to lead a full classroom. You'll partner with a district-employed teacher to run the Alpha model together. You bring deep classroom experience, a different approach to student motivation and learning, and the ability to model new practices in real time. Your partner brings their own expertise, knowledge of their students, and understanding of their school. This is a partnership, not a handoff.

Alpha students spend about two hours each morning learning core academics through TimeBack, our mastery‑based adaptive learning model. That means you won't spend your day lecturing, grading worksheets, or writing math and reading lesson plans. Instead, you'll focus on the parts of teaching that technology can't replace: motivating students, building a classroom students take ownership of, designing project‑based workshops, and developing future‑ready skills.

You'll also have an impact beyond this year's students. You'll model Alpha's approach for your partner teacher, coach in the moment, share what works, and gradually step back as they build confidence using the model themselves. Your job is to earn trust and help another experienced educator succeed alongside you. If you've managed a full public‑school classroom, developed other teachers, and built learning experiences from scratch, this is a chance to put all three skills to work.

What you will be doing

• Running the classroom alongside 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.

What you will NOT be doing

• Replacing the district teacher: You are joining their classroom as a partner. You will work side by side and build capability together.
• Lecturing and grading all day: Adaptive learning software handles core academic instruction so you can focus on motivation, culture, coaching, and skill development.
• Managing through constant commands or punishment: You'll build systems that give students meaningful autonomy while using clear expectations, accountability, and positive incentives.
• Formally training or evaluating your partner teacher: Alpha's Learning & Development team owns formal training, and the district owns teacher evaluation. You coach through the work itself.
• Working with a small, hand‑picked group of students: You'll work with a full‑size public‑school class and demonstrate that this model can succeed at the scale public schools actually operate.

Key responsibilities

Deliver strong student outcomes in a full public‑school classroom while helping a district teacher build the capability and confidence to run Alpha's model increasingly independently by the end of the school year.

Candidate requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as the primary teacher responsible for a public‑school class of 20-30 students. A bachelor's degree in any subject and a teaching license from any state are required; a license expired no more than 5 years ago also qualifies.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing other educators in a public‑school setting, such as serving as an instructional coach, department chair, team lead, mentor/cooperating teacher for student teachers, or education consultant.
• Experience personally designing and delivering a project‑based learning unit from the ground up, with clear objectives and assessments that check mastery during the unit and at its end.
• Demonstrated ability to build a classroom culture based on student ownership, clear expectations, accountability, and motivation, using student data to act when progress stalls. A record of high achievement in your own academic, athletic, or professional work.
• Strong interpersonal judgment and the ability to influence experienced peers without relying on formal authority, including earning trust in an unfamiliar school.
• Willingness and ability to work in person at a participating public school in Springfield, Massachusetts, or Houston, Texas, following its weekday contract hours and calendar, including teacher workdays. Relocation is welcome. Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring or supervising educators or student teachers.
• Experience introducing new instructional practices or programs within a public‑school environment.
• Familiarity with mastery‑based learning, adaptive learning technology, or current learning‑science practices.

Ever wondered if work is enhancing your life, or erasing it? After years of late nights as a fitness coach left him exhausted and disconnected from the people he loved, Chris Hayes found a different path at Alpha. Now he’s an L2 Guide in Miami, helping students build grit and confidence in a role that has given him a whole new kind of energy.

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She never wanted to just manage a classroom. Katie wanted to help students see what they were capable of. After years of trying to make that possible inside traditional K-12 systems, she found Alpha - a place where Guides are free to challenge, support, and believe in students every day. Now she’s helping build the future of school, one campus at a time.

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After years of giving everything to education, Sam DePalo was done. Not because she lacked passion, but because passion alone couldn’t repair a broken model. Then she found Alpha. Now she’s a Lead Guide in Fort Worth, helping students grow faster, dream bigger, and learn the life skills traditional school never made time to teach.

Meet Sam

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Braden knew he wanted to work with students. He just didn’t want the old version of the job. After years of coaching, debate, and searching for an education role built around motivation instead of lectures, he found Alpha. Now he’s a Head Guide helping grow the Guides who build trust, raise standards, and become the adults students remember.

It’s hard to qualify – on purpose. High standards mean every educator, leader and EdTech builder is at the top of their game.

Salary without side gigs

Top performers earn what they’re worth. Six‑figure education roles aren’t fantasy here – they’re the baseline for excellence.

Skills make the grade

Skills carry more weight that resumes here. Demonstrate learning mastery, AI fluency and passion for what’s next. That’s what counts.