K-3 Reading Coach: App-Based Learning Guide

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Benefits package

401(k)

Job summary

Alpha School is hiring guides to reimagine how learning happens through app-based core instruction for K-3 students. You will lead targeted literacy sessions, diagnose gaps, and guide students from launch to closing each day on-site at a campus.

This full-time role emphasizes data-driven literacy progress, with about 70% of time in guided app-learning and 30% in targeted reading interventions, plus collaboration with families through data and weekly goals.

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
• 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

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

On-site work

Data-driven instruction

Reading progress focus

Education

Structured-literacy training (LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS)

Master's in reading or literacy

Bachelor's degree in any subject

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha School is hiring guides to reimagine how learning happens through app-based core instruction for K-3 students. You will lead targeted literacy sessions, diagnose gaps, and guide students from launch to closing each day on-site at a campus.

This full-time role emphasizes data-driven literacy progress, with about 70% of time in guided app-learning and 30% in targeted reading interventions, plus collaboration with families through data and weekly goals.