On-Site Reading Coach: Close Gaps for K-3 Learners

Alpha School; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha School seeks a Reading Program Coordinator to guide K-3 students through app-based learning and targeted literacy sessions on-site. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and track weekly progress with data for families.

You'll spend about 70% of your day guiding students in core activities, 30% in targeted interventions, and you’ll collaborate across campus to maintain daily goals and a positive learning culture. Relocation support available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, 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.
• 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.

Job description

Alpha School seeks a Reading Program Coordinator to guide K-3 students through app-based learning and targeted literacy sessions on-site. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and track weekly progress with data for families.

You'll spend about 70% of your day guiding students in core activities, 30% in targeted interventions, and you’ll collaborate across campus to maintain daily goals and a positive learning culture. Relocation support available.