Student Success Coach: Elevate Reading for K-3

Alpha School; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Relocation allowance

Commuter accounts

Job summary

Alpha School is seeking a Student Success Coach to drive early literacy outcomes for K-3 students on-site at our campuses. You will diagnose reading gaps, design short, targeted sequences, and guide students through app-based learning and structured literacy sessions.

You’ll stay with your students through the day’s routine, from launch to closing, using data to push weekly app goals and reading progress. A teaching background in structured literacy and a willingness to relocate are essential.

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
• 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

• Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps stopping them from getting there alone.
• 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

Coaching

Reading instruction

Child development

Diagnostics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured-literacy training or masters

Tools

Amira

Lexia

i-Ready

DRA

DIBELS

AIMSweb

Job description

Alpha School is seeking a Student Success Coach to drive early literacy outcomes for K-3 students on-site at our campuses. You will diagnose reading gaps, design short, targeted sequences, and guide students through app-based learning and structured literacy sessions.

You’ll stay with your students through the day’s routine, from launch to closing, using data to push weekly app goals and reading progress. A teaching background in structured literacy and a willingness to relocate are essential.