On-Site Reading Coach for K-3 — App-Based Growth

Alpha School; Elgin (IL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha School seeks a Reading Program Coordinator to coach K–3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and guide targeted literacy sessions. You will lead mornings, workshops, and campus routines, driving weekly app goals and maintaining high daily standards.

The role is full-time, on-site at an Alpha campus with relocation support and a mission to close reading gaps across K–3. Prior structured literacy training and US work authorization are required.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, 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.

Skills

Reading intervention

Student coaching

Data-driven instruction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in reading or literacy

Structured literacy training (LETRS/IMSE/etc)

Tools

Amira

Lexia

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha School seeks a Reading Program Coordinator to coach K–3 students through app-based core learning, diagnose decoding gaps, and guide targeted literacy sessions. You will lead mornings, workshops, and campus routines, driving weekly app goals and maintaining high daily standards.

The role is full-time, on-site at an Alpha campus with relocation support and a mission to close reading gaps across K–3. Prior structured literacy training and US work authorization are required.