K-3 Reading Coach & Literacy Mentor

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

Voluntary benefits

FSA/HSA

Commuter accounts

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha is hiring for a Learning Coach to guide K–3 students through app-based core learning and targeted literacy sessions on-site.

You will lead morning launches, life-skills workshops, and classroom routines, while ensuring students reach weekly app and reading goals via gamified systems. This role blends diagnostic reading support with daily engagement in a dynamic campus environment.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years directly with children ages 4–9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, or similar settings.
• 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.
• 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

Willing to work on-site

Reading platforms experience (Amira)

Diagnosing reading gaps via running-4

Reading instruction coaching for K-3

Education

Bachelor's degree in any subject

Teaching certificate not required

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha is hiring for a Learning Coach to guide K–3 students through app-based core learning and targeted literacy sessions on-site.

You will lead morning launches, life-skills workshops, and classroom routines, while ensuring students reach weekly app and reading goals via gamified systems. This role blends diagnostic reading support with daily engagement in a dynamic campus environment.