On-site K-3 Reading Coach — App-Based Literacy

Alpha School; West Covina (CA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School is seeking a Youth Development Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose gaps, and design short, targeted sequences. You will stay with students across launch, workshops, and daily routines, ensuring progress toward weekly literacy goals.

Requirements include 3+ years with children, 2+ years teaching reading in K-3, and structured-literacy training or a master’s in reading. This on-site role offers relocation support and full-time employment.

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
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• 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

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

Literacy coaching

Student assessment

Classroom management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in reading or literacy

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha School is seeking a Youth Development Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose gaps, and design short, targeted sequences. You will stay with students across launch, workshops, and daily routines, ensuring progress toward weekly literacy goals.

Requirements include 3+ years with children, 2+ years teaching reading in K-3, and structured-literacy training or a master’s in reading. This on-site role offers relocation support and full-time employment.