K-3 Reading Coach — On-Site, App-Based Learning

Crossover; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 4,859,000 - 6,061,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is hiring for a full-time, on-site role at a campus in Boston. You will coach K-3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and design targeted sequences to close gaps.

You will lead morning launch and daily routines, stay with students through lunch and closing, and guide them toward weekly app goals with gamification. Requires 3+ years with children and structured-literacy training.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, 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.
• 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

Coaching

Literacy instruction

Student engagement

Data-driven coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured-literacy training/certification

Tools

Reading platforms: Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha is hiring for a full-time, on-site role at a campus in Boston. You will coach K-3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and design targeted sequences to close gaps.

You will lead morning launch and daily routines, stay with students through lunch and closing, and guide them toward weekly app goals with gamification. Requires 3+ years with children and structured-literacy training.