K-3 Reading Coach & Growth Mentor

Alpha School; Elk Grove (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School seeks a dedicated Youth Development Coach to guide K‑3 students through app-based learning, literacy sessions, and daily campus routines. You’ll diagnose gaps, design brief sequences, and stay with students from launch to closing, using data to name next steps and drive steady progress.

This on-site, full-time role requires at least three years working with children aged 4–9 and two years teaching reading in K‑3 within the last five years.

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 in settings where your presence was the draw — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children’s theater, or similar
• 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.

Skills

Reading instruction

Coaching

Youth development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in any subject

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

Master’s in reading or literacy

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha School seeks a dedicated Youth Development Coach to guide K‑3 students through app-based learning, literacy sessions, and daily campus routines. You’ll diagnose gaps, design brief sequences, and stay with students from launch to closing, using data to name next steps and drive steady progress.

This on-site, full-time role requires at least three years working with children aged 4–9 and two years teaching reading in K‑3 within the last five years.