K-3 Reading Guide: Transform Classrooms with Apps

Alpha School; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Paid time off and parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha School is hiring guides for an on-site, full-time role on our campus network. You will work with K-3 students, leading app-based core learning, targeted literacy sessions, and campus routines to reach weekly reading goals.

The role emphasizes diagnostic instruction, frequent progress checks, and direct parent-facing data updates. A bachelor’s degree is required, with structured-literacy training or a master’s in reading preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 in 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.

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

Reading intervention experience

Coaching students

Experience with 4-9 year olds

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in reading or literacy

Job description

Alpha School is hiring guides for an on-site, full-time role on our campus network. You will work with K-3 students, leading app-based core learning, targeted literacy sessions, and campus routines to reach weekly reading goals.

The role emphasizes diagnostic instruction, frequent progress checks, and direct parent-facing data updates. A bachelor’s degree is required, with structured-literacy training or a master’s in reading preferred.