On-Site Student Success Coach: Driving Reading & Growth

Alpha School; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Relocation allowance

Job summary

Alpha is hiring a Student Success Coach to guide K–3 reading and literacy development on-site at a Seattle campus. You’ll coach students through app-based core learning, run targeted literacy sessions, and lead daily routines from launch to closing, ensuring weekly app goals are met.

You will work 70% of your day in guided reading activities and 30% in targeted reading sessions, with formal literacy training and a focus on closing gaps for individual students.

Qualifications

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

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 gaps from running records and fluency probes; teaching a designed sequence and checking 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, addressing frustration with a plan.

Skills

Reading interventions

Structured literacy

Student coaching

On-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured literacy training / master’s in reading

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

Job description

Alpha is hiring a Student Success Coach to guide K–3 reading and literacy development on-site at a Seattle campus. You’ll coach students through app-based core learning, run targeted literacy sessions, and lead daily routines from launch to closing, ensuring weekly app goals are met.

You will work 70% of your day in guided reading activities and 30% in targeted reading sessions, with formal literacy training and a focus on closing gaps for individual students.