On-Site Student Success Coach: Reading & Growth

Crossover; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is seeking a Student Success Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning on-site at a campus in Washington. You’ll diagnose gaps, target instruction, and keep daily goals high, while staying with students through lunch and dismissal.

You’ll run short literacy sessions for 2-4 students, lead morning launches and routines, and use data to name gaps for parents weekly. Requires 3+ years with children 4-9, 2+ years reading coaching, bachelor’s, and structured-literacy training;

Qualifications

• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar.
• At least 2 years of that experience coaching students on 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 90% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% on 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 short 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, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.

Skills

Reading coaching

Gap diagnosis

K-3 instruction

On-site leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree (any subject)

Structured-literacy training (LETRS/IMSE/OG/WilsonFundations/UFLI etc)

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha is seeking a Student Success Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning on-site at a campus in Washington. You’ll diagnose gaps, target instruction, and keep daily goals high, while staying with students through lunch and dismissal.

You’ll run short literacy sessions for 2-4 students, lead morning launches and routines, and use data to name gaps for parents weekly. Requires 3+ years with children 4-9, 2+ years reading coaching, bachelor’s, and structured-literacy training;