Learning Guide, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in one of the following locations: Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)

This role is about motivation, not traditional teaching.

The most meaningful way to support a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this position may not be for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time will be spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Approximately 30% of your time involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly application goals. The remaining 10% is dedicated to reviewing data and translating it into actionable coaching strategies for the following week. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as frameworks, and top performers in this role modify them and create new content when needed.

A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort achieves their weekly app goals, demonstrates measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role's core objectives have not been met. Once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, opportunities open for advancement to Lead Guide — mentoring new Guides while continuing to run a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, where you would oversee an entire school and manage parent relationships.

If you prefer conventional teaching methods, want pre-built curriculum delivered to you, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let a student give up, or performance experience that allowed you to engage a room full of 12-year-olds, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other transferable skills, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who respond to direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust and confide in; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your confidence in their abilities

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, personal, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to make it easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the standard
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Learning Guide Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year with a positive view of their experience with you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the specific goal, your actions, and the result
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards is a natural pattern, not an adopted stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success in converting disengaged or resistant students into active, willing participants

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5607-US-Washingt-LearningGuide1.004