Reading & Growth Coach for K-3 – On-Site

Alpha School; Swansea (MA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School in the United States is seeking a Youth Development Coach to support K-3 students through app-based literacy learning, diagnose gaps, and design short sequences to close them. You will stay with the same students all day, moving from morning launch to closing, using running records and fluency probes to guide instruction.

This on-site, full-time role requires at least 3 years with children 4–9 and structured-literacy training or a related degree.

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 in settings where your presence was the draw — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar
• 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 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 instruction

Phonics & decoding

Structured literacy

On-site coaching

Youth development

Classroom management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in reading or literacy

Structured-literacy training (LETRS/IMSE/OG/Wilson/Fundations/UFLI/CERI/Neuhaus/SIPPS)

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha School in the United States is seeking a Youth Development Coach to support K-3 students through app-based literacy learning, diagnose gaps, and design short sequences to close them. You will stay with the same students all day, moving from morning launch to closing, using running records and fluency probes to guide instruction.

This on-site, full-time role requires at least 3 years with children 4–9 and structured-literacy training or a related degree.