On-Site Reading Coach: K-3 Targeted Interventions

Alpha School; New York (NY); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Relocation allowance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Commuter accounts

Job summary

Alpha invites dedicated reading teachers to join as guides in a full-time, on-site role supporting K-3 students across various campuses. You will focus on app-based core learning, diagnose gaps, and run targeted literacy sessions to close reading gaps daily.

You will lead morning launches, life-skills workshops, and maintain daily progress toward weekly app goals, while providing continuous support through lunch and reading interventions.

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 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 instruction

Structured literacy

On-site work

Relocation support

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured-literacy training or master's in reading

Job description

Alpha invites dedicated reading teachers to join as guides in a full-time, on-site role supporting K-3 students across various campuses. You will focus on app-based core learning, diagnose gaps, and run targeted literacy sessions to close reading gaps daily.

You will lead morning launches, life-skills workshops, and maintain daily progress toward weekly app goals, while providing continuous support through lunch and reading interventions.