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

Learning Coach, Alpha

At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers in this role customize it for their cohort and create new activities when needed. The remaining half of your day is spent with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. Warmth opens the door to high expectations. High expectations demonstrate your belief in their capacity.

A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Fall short on any one of those three metrics and you have not met the standard. In your first year you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain that standard, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a curriculum delivered without adaptation, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to fit your cohort rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep every student on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationships you have developed with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, movement, and playfulness while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching from the whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it.
• Passively monitoring kids at computers. Motivation in this role is active, individualized, and sustained.
• Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can reach it. When a student is struggling, the solution is coaching the student, not lowering the target.
• Grading homework, administering standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model.

Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

• Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort meets their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your approach, and the result.
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver academic instruction while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to maintain high standards with students even when they resist.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goals.
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a demanding standard is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance.
• Natural performer's presence with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and movement.
• Proven ability to transform shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged 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.

Key skills/competency

• Learning Coach
• K-2 Education
• Life Skills Workshops
• AI Coaching
• Motivation
• High Expectations
• Student Engagement
• Performance Analysis
• Curriculum Customization
• Child Development