Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Crossover; Broken Arrow (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha seeks Learning Coaches to deliver targeted literacy interventions and guide K-3 students through app-based, AI-assisted core instruction on site. The role emphasizes diagnostics, small-group instruction, and daily objectives across mornings and campus activities.

You will maintain presence with your group through meals and outdoor time, addressing resistance with tailored behavioral strategies and providing weekly progress data to families.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of direct experience with children ages 4-9 in instructional roles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver targeted structured-literacy interventions to small groups (2-4 students).
• Support app-based core instruction and diagnose barriers to progress.
• Lead morning routines, workshops, meals, and reflections with students.
• Motivate students toward weekly application goals using incentives and gamification.
• Remain with student groups from opening to dismissal and address behaviors with individualized approaches.

Skills

Experience with children 4-9

Reading instruction (K-3)

Structured-literacy certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline

Structured-literacy certification: LETRS/IMSE/OG/Fundations/etc.

US work authorization

Tools

Amira

Lexia

DRA/DIBELS/AIMSweb

Job description

• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 40-hour workweek across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You recognize a miscue instantly and can identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she never mastered, the blend he approximates rather than reads. That skill will be essential here. The challenge comes in what follows. When a first-grader sits before you, struggling and near tears, the correct response is rarely to simply provide the answer.

Alpha operates fundamentally differently from traditional schools. Students complete their core academic work in roughly two hours each morning using AI-adaptive applications—no classroom instruction, no printed curriculum, no predetermined pacing. The remainder of the day focuses on life-skills development. Staff members are designated as Guides rather than teachers, and the distinction is deliberate: your role is not content delivery. You ensure students engage with their work, maintain motivation, and navigate obstacles the application cannot resolve.

You remain with the same group from morning opening through dismissal: core academics, workshop sessions, meals, outdoor time, reflection activities. This continuous presence reveals insights no formal assessment can capture. Within two weeks, you will identify the student who appears fluent—reading passages smoothly because she has memorized them, not because she possesses true decoding skills.

Once you identify a gap, you address it immediately. No referral process, no team meeting, no waiting list. You gather two to four children and deliver a targeted fifteen-minute intervention designed for their specific error pattern—phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the data indicates—verify transfer, then return them to independent work.

You will not spend late evenings creating individualized plans for twenty-four students. Your preparation is targeted and assessment-driven: which students require support tomorrow, and what instruction will produce measurable progress. You maintain rigorous daily objectives without compromise, because families receive weekly performance data and expect you to articulate specific gaps.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationwide, and qualified personnel represent the primary constraint. Those who demonstrate excellence participate in recruiting and training incoming Guides and develop programming implemented across multiple sites. Some advance to leadership positions coaching teams, where the diagnostic reasoning underlying literacy instruction becomes the central responsibility. These opportunities are performance-based, not guaranteed at hire.

Your résumé alone will not determine your candidacy. If your strengths have never translated neatly to traditional application materials, that is precisely the point.

We conduct national recruitment, so job listings may appear in cities near campuses rather than at exact locations. Current opportunities:

• AZ - Phoenix
• OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT - Park City (Salt Lake City)

Prefer a different Alpha location? Submit your application, indicate your preferred campus, and we will direct you appropriately.

What You Will Be Doing

• Delivering targeted structured-literacy interventions to groups of two to four students—identifying phonics or decoding deficits through running records and fluency assessments, designing instruction to address specific patterns, and verifying skill transfer
• Supporting students during app-based core instruction: identifying stalled progress, asking diagnostic questions to remove obstacles, maintaining daily learning targets
• Facilitating morning launch routines, life-skills workshops, and reflection activities that sustain engagement for young learners
• Motivating students toward weekly application goals using school-based incentive systems, competitive leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification
• Remaining with your student group throughout meals, outdoor time, and dismissal, addressing resistance and frustration with individualized behavioral approaches

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating nightly lesson plans for an entire class. Your planning is focused and diagnostic
• Managing a pull-out intervention caseload in a separate space. Reading instruction occupies approximately one-tenth of your schedule and occurs within the regular day
• Implementing a commercial program according to a predetermined scope and sequence
• Developing IEPs or 504 plans, managing assessment documentation, or participating in curriculum committees
• Transferring your students to other staff during preparation periods. You remain with them from opening to dismissal

Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every K-3 student reaches daily learning objectives, and address the reading deficits that prevent independent progress.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the listed campus locations, relocation support provided
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience with children ages 4-9: instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp programming, youth activities, children’s theater, or comparable settings where children attended because of your involvement
• Minimum 2 years of that experience teaching reading to grades K-3, occurring within the past 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy certification: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or equivalent; or master's degree in reading or literacy
• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Teaching certification not required
• Comfortable allocating approximately 90% of your time to guiding students through application-based learning, workshops, and campus activities, with 10% devoted to reading interventions
• Willing to serve all K-3 students, not exclusively those with reading difficulties
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You maintain engagement in a room of first-graders using only your presence and well-designed activities
• Exhausted children consistently returned to your after-school or summer programming
• Familiarity with digital reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can describe a particular child whose decoding skills you remediated, and explain your instructional approach
• Experience in alternative educational models: charter schools, micro-schools, Montessori programs, or hybrid formats

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact:

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters:

Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders:

Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

Working with us

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-BrokenAr-LearningCoach