Literacy Specialist: Diagnose & Accelerate K-3 Reading

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

Job summary

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

We seek a Literacy Specialist to work on-site with K-3 students, coaching small groups, diagnosing decoding gaps, and delivering short, targeted sequences using app-based core learning. You’ll stay with your students from launch through closing, turning data into concrete improvement. Relocation support is available as needed.

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: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children\'s theater, or similar settings where kids showed up because of you
• 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

Audience: 4-9 age children

Reading coaching

Diagnostic teaching

App-based instruction

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Structured-literacy training or master’s in reading

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA/DIBELS/AIMSweb diagnostics

Job description

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

We seek a Literacy Specialist to work on-site with K-3 students, coaching small groups, diagnosing decoding gaps, and delivering short, targeted sequences using app-based core learning. You’ll stay with your students from launch through closing, turning data into concrete improvement. Relocation support is available as needed.