K-3 Literacy Coach: App‑Based Reading Breakthroughs

Crossover; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation allowance

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Alpha is hiring an Elementary School Teacher to coach students through app-based core learning and close reading gaps for K-3. You’ll diagnose gaps, design targeted sequences, and lead 5-day-a-week on-site sessions at an Alpha campus with relocation support.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years with children, 2+ years teaching reading, and structured-literacy training (e.g., LETRS, Orton‑Gillingham). Bachelor’s degree required; US work authorization essential.

Qualifications

• 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 90% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% on reading sessions
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Coaching students through app-based core learning: spotting who is stuck, asking the question that unblocks them, holding the daily goal.
• Running short 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, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.
• Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps stopping them from getting there alone.

Skills

Structured literacy training

Reading instruction

Differentiated instruction

App-based learning coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in any subject

Master's in reading or literacy

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha is hiring an Elementary School Teacher to coach students through app-based core learning and close reading gaps for K-3. You’ll diagnose gaps, design targeted sequences, and lead 5-day-a-week on-site sessions at an Alpha campus with relocation support.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years with children, 2+ years teaching reading, and structured-literacy training (e.g., LETRS, Orton‑Gillingham). Bachelor’s degree required; US work authorization essential.