Literacy Coordinator, Alpha - , USD

• $100,000 annual salary, weekly pay cycle, full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site placement at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with K-2 learners

You've logged years building mastery in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a graduate degree in reading instruction. You can identify a student's error pattern instantly and pinpoint the exact phonemic skill to address. You can craft a phonics lesson from scratch without relying on a boxed curriculum. That's baseline. It won't set you apart.

What will set you apart is this: six-year-olds are genuinely excited to see you. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide—a dynamic, captivating figure students are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy background opens the door; your capacity to keep a K-2 classroom fully engaged during a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "dynamic, captivating presence" doesn't fit your teaching style, this role isn't for you.

Alpha has redesigned conventional schooling. Students work through academic content independently using AI-adaptive platforms—no direct instruction, no textbooks, no uniform pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You build small-group reading workshops from live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions that inspire every student to reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification).

Your initial period focuses on winning the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, differentiated, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) directly reflect this. Once you prove success, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to inform subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 literacy model develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the systems you create become the blueprint for reading instruction across all locations.

Prior to hiring, you will submit a short video delivering an engaging narrative for young children, and you will complete a full-day on-campus trial working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies candidates regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy principles (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student performance data
• Facilitating daily motivational sessions that ensure 100% of students reach their weekly adaptive-app targets, utilizing Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics to monitor progress and refine instruction for subsequent sessions
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not solely during advance planning
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are genuinely excited to see each day

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district pacing calendar; you create your own instruction based on student data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students engage with academic subjects through adaptive platforms
• Functioning as a reading consultant, instructional coach for colleagues, or district-level literacy leader; you are in the classroom working with children daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation; your time blocks are dedicated to workshops, motivational sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
• Assessing homework or issuing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app analytics and your running records

Literacy Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.

Basic Requirements

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain instructional content and methods, without depending on a published program
• Commitment to full-time, in-person work at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to serve all K-2 learners (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
• Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Practical experience with AI-driven or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy growth, decoding level progression) you can cite with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or engaging K-2 audiences outside traditional reading instruction

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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4849-US-Washingt-LiteracyCoordi1.001