Learning Guide, Alpha - , USD

• $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, 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; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (with relocation support available)

You are not here to teach. Your role is to motivate.

The most powerful way to support a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you signal your belief in a student's capacity—then continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not be following a fixed script; workshops provide a framework, and top performers in this role customize them and create new sessions as 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 metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide—where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you manage an entire school and oversee parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect a pre-built curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not for you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students who needed persistent encouragement, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full day on campus working directly with 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 essential skills, customizing the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to drive every student toward their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the next week based on the data insights

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own voice and examples
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, direct, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for students in need; when a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Learning Guide Key Responsibilities

Ensure that every student in your K-8 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved working 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; 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; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (with relocation support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership roles)
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that shows holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, not just a performance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Proven success in converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged, active learners

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-LearningGuide1.005