K-3 Reading Coach: On-Site Impact & Growth

Crossover; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha reimagines the school day with a focus on faster learning and stronger mentorship. The Youth Development Coach will guide K-3 students through app-based core learning, identify gaps, and design targeted sequences to close them.

You will stay with students through daily routines, drive weekly goals, and foster a culture of progress and accountability. This is a full-time, on-site position with relocation support and a mission to scale across campuses nationwide.

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
• 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

Student coaching

Classroom presence

Education

Bachelor's degree (any subject)

Structured-literacy training or Master’s in reading/literacy

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha reimagines the school day with a focus on faster learning and stronger mentorship. The Youth Development Coach will guide K-3 students through app-based core learning, identify gaps, and design targeted sequences to close them.

You will stay with students through daily routines, drive weekly goals, and foster a culture of progress and accountability. This is a full-time, on-site position with relocation support and a mission to scale across campuses nationwide.