Guide K-2

$100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; day-one health, dental, vision benefitsOn-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) You are not a teacher. You motivate.The most supportive thing you can do for a six-year-old who hit 99% of their goal is refuse to call it done. If that standard makes you uncomfortable, stop reading. If it makes you light up because holding the bar is how you show a kindergartener you believe in them, keep going.At Alpha, K-2 students learn academics through AI-powered apps in two hours a day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half your day you run one-hour life-skills workshops on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback. Workshops are a starting point, not a script - the best in this role adapt them to their cohort and design new ones when something's missing. The other half, you sit with students 1:1 or in tiny groups, review Coachbot analytics, and coach each of them to 100% of their weekly app goals. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not extras; they are how you hold attention long enough to teach anything. Warmth earns you the right to push. Pushing shows them you believe they can get there.A quarter succeeds when every student hits their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ say they love you. Missing any of those three is missing the job. In year one you master the playbook; as you prove you can hold the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you coach newer hires while still working directly with kids.If you love traditional teaching, want a curriculum handed to you, or believe warmth and high standards are in tension, this is not the job. If you've been an early-elementary teacher who thrived on circle time, a camp counselor for little kids, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and sheer energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that's the part that excites you most, apply today.What you will be doingLeading one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 K-2 students on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other durable skillsRunning daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that keep students on pace for weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the relationship you've built with each childAdministering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who don't pass until they doMeeting kindergarteners where they are with songs, stories, movement, and silliness, while still holding first and second graders to real, measurable standardsBeing the warm adult kids light up to see at drop-off AND the adult who refuses to let them coast What you will NOT be doingLecturing from the whiteboard; academic instruction lives in the apps, not in youWriting curriculum from scratch; Alpha provides the playbook and you bring it to lifeSupervising kids at computers; motivation here is active, personal, and relentlessLowering a weekly goal so a kid can hit it; if a student is behind, the fix is the student, not the targetGrading homework, running standardized test prep, or managing parent communication; Campus Leads own parent-facing work, and none of the rest exists here Key responsibilitiesEnsure every student in your K-2 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved you.Candidate requirementsWilling 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 subjectAt 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 outcomeAble to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campusWillingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coachingLegally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship Nice to haveExperience 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 goalsPersonal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a postureNatural performer's presence with little kids - the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movementTrack record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants