Early Childhood Educator, Alpha – $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)

Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.

The most caring thing you can do when a six-year-old reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that expectation troubles you, this isn’t your role. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener’s potential, continue reading.

Alpha’s K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. No traditional lessons. No paper worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—top performers in this position customize them for their group and create new ones when gaps emerge. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not supplementary; they are essential tools for maintaining attention long enough to facilitate learning. Building warmth earns you credibility to challenge them. Challenging them demonstrates your confidence in their abilities.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role isn’t being fulfilled. During year one you internalize the methodology; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer staff while continuing direct work with children.

If you prefer conventional teaching, need fully developed curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as incompatible, this position isn’t suitable. If you’ve excelled as an early-elementary teacher who thrived during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children’s theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and pure energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that’s what excites you most, submit your application today.

What you will be doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-2 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other transferable skills
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha’s reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you’ve established with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha’s mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and supporting students who don’t pass until they achieve mastery
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at morning arrival AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best

What you will NOT be doing

• Delivering lectures at the whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not through direct instruction
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
• Simply monitoring kids at computers; coaching here is active, personal, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the target
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don’t exist in this model

Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

Candidate Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor’s degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome
• Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice to have

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children’s theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture
• Natural performer’s presence with little kids — the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants

This position is also known as:

• 2nd Grade Teacher
• Kindergarten Teacher
• Early Childhood Teacher
• Elementary School Teacher
• Early Childhood Specialist