Teacher Leader, Alpha (Remote) - $100,000/year USD

Crossover; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is hiring experienced public-school educators to co-run a full classroom, partnering with a district-employed teacher to implement the Alpha model in Springfield, MA or Houston, TX. This is a full-time W2 role with in-person duties and a $100,000 annual salary.

You will focus on student motivation, ownership, and project-based workshops, using data to guide instruction while modeling new practices in real time. Relocation is welcome and visa sponsorship is not required.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years as primary teacher in a public-school class.
• Experience leading or developing other educators in a public-school setting.
• Experience delivering a project-based learning unit with clear objectives and assessments.
• Ability to build classroom culture with ownership, clear expectations, accountability and motivation.
• Strong interpersonal judgement to influence peers without formal authority.
• Willingness to work in person in Springfield, MA or Houston, TX with US work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the day, student outcomes, and classroom culture with a district teacher.
• Create a student-led culture with live data and incentives.
• Design original workshops to develop future-ready skills.
• Coach through action and build partner teacher confidence in the model.
• Track daily student engagement and learning data to adapt approaches.

Skills

Leadership in classroom

Coaching educators

Student motivation

Project-based learning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Teaching license

Tools

Mastery-based learning

Adaptive learning technology

Job description

"This is not a school that is replacing teachers. This is not a threat to teachers in any way, shape, or form. This is reimagining what a teacher can be."

— Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas

Alpha is hiring.

In-person | Springfield, MA or Houston, TX | Full-time W2 employee | $100,000 annual salary

What if the best way to change a public-school classroom isn't to change the teacher, but to work alongside them?

Alpha is bringing its learning model into public schools, and we need experienced public-school educators who have already led other teachers and know what it takes to lead a full classroom. You'll partner with a district-employed teacher to run the Alpha model together. You bring deep classroom experience, a track record of developing fellow educators, a different approach to student motivation and learning, and the ability to model new practices in real time. Your partner brings their own expertise, knowledge of their students, and understanding of their school. This is a partnership, not a handoff.

Alpha students spend about two hours each morning learning core academics through TimeBack, our mastery-based adaptive learning model. That means you won't spend your day lecturing, grading worksheets, or writing math and reading lesson plans. Instead, you'll focus on the parts of teaching that technology can't replace: motivating students, building a classroom students take ownership of, designing project-based workshops, and developing future-ready skills.

You'll also have an impact beyond this year's students. You'll model Alpha's approach for your partner teacher, coach in the moment, share what works, and gradually step back as they build confidence using the model themselves. You won't formally train or evaluate them. Your job is to earn trust and help another experienced educator succeed alongside you. If you've managed a full public-school classroom, developed other teachers, and built learning experiences from scratch, this is a chance to put all three skills to work.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running the classroom alongside a district teacher: Co-own the day, student outcomes, and classroom culture while building a true working partnership with an experienced public-school educator.
• Building a student-led culture: Use clear goals, live data, relationships, peer accountability, and individual and group incentives to help students take increasing ownership of their learning and behavior.
• Designing project-based learning: Create original workshops that develop future-ready skills through hands-on projects, with clear objectives and ways to measure student mastery.
• Coaching through action: Model Alpha practices, give useful feedback in the moment, and help your partner teacher build the confidence and skill to lead more of the model over time.
• Acting on student data every day: Track whether students love school, learn at an accelerated pace, and build future-ready skills, then adjust your approach based on what the data shows.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Replacing the district teacher: You are joining their classroom as a partner. You will work side by side and build capability together.
• Lecturing and grading all day: Adaptive learning software handles core academic instruction so you can focus on motivation, culture, coaching, and skill development.
• Managing through constant commands or punishment: You'll build systems that give students meaningful autonomy while using clear expectations, accountability, and positive incentives.
• Formally training or evaluating your partner teacher: Alpha's Learning & Development team owns formal training, and the district owns teacher evaluation. You coach through the work itself.
• Working with a small, hand-picked group of students: You'll work with a full-size public-school class and demonstrate that this model can succeed at the scale public schools actually operate.

Teacher Leader Key Responsibilities

Deliver strong student outcomes in a full public-school classroom while helping a district teacher build the capability and confidence to run Alpha's model increasingly independently by the end of the school year.

Basic Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as the primary teacher responsible for a public-school class of 20-30 students. A bachelor's degree in any subject and a teaching license from any state are required; a license expired no more than 5 years ago also qualifies.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing other educators in a public-school setting, such as serving as an instructional coach, department chair, team lead, mentor/cooperating teacher for student teachers, or education consultant.
• Experience personally designing and delivering a project-based learning unit from the ground up, with clear objectives and assessments that check mastery during the unit and at its end.
• Demonstrated ability to build a classroom culture based on student ownership, clear expectations, accountability, and motivation, using student data to act when progress stalls. A record of high achievement in your own academic, athletic, or professional work.
• Strong interpersonal judgment and the ability to influence experienced peers without relying on formal authority, including earning trust in an unfamiliar school.
• Willingness and ability to work in person at a participating public school in Springfield, Massachusetts, or Houston, Texas, following its weekday contract hours and calendar, including teacher workdays. Relocation is welcome. Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship is required.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience mentoring or supervising educators or student teachers.
• Experience introducing new instructional practices or programs within a public-school environment.
• Familiarity with mastery-based learning, adaptive learning technology, or current learning-science practices.

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Roles with real student impact

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters

Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders

Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

Working with us

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.