On-Site Learning Coach - Literacy Growth Specialist

Alpha School; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Relocation allowance

401(k)

Job summary

Alpha School is seeking a Learning Coach to support K-3 students with app-based core learning and targeted reading sessions on our campus in the United States. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and monitor weekly progress with families to close reading gaps.

You’ll split time between guided instruction (about 70%) and targeted sessions (about 30%), staying with students from launch to close and collaborating with campus leaders on literacy goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar settings.
• At least 2 years 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 70% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and about 30% on targeted 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 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 coaching

Student engagement

Data-driven instruction

Communication with parents

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha School is seeking a Learning Coach to support K-3 students with app-based core learning and targeted reading sessions on our campus in the United States. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and monitor weekly progress with families to close reading gaps.

You’ll split time between guided instruction (about 70%) and targeted sessions (about 30%), staying with students from launch to close and collaborating with campus leaders on literacy goals.