Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

An AI system can instruct a six-year-old in reading. It cannot teach her to care about it. Bridging that divide is your responsibility.At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications over a two-hour daily period. No traditional instruction. No paper assignments. For half of each day, you facilitate one-hour life-skills sessions focused on public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. A structured playbook is available, but top performers customize it for their specific group and create new exercises when needed. During the remaining half, you work with students individually or in very small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child toward completing 100% of their weekly application targets. Building genuine connection gives you the credibility to set high expectations. Setting high expectations demonstrates your confidence in their capabilities.A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly application targets, earns a passing Test2Pass score for every life-skills session, and 90% or more report that they love you. Falling short on any single metric means falling short of the role. During your first year, you'll internalize the playbook; after demonstrating you can maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a position where you mentor new team members while continuing to lead your own cohort.If you prefer conventional classroom teaching, need curriculum provided in full, or view warmth and rigor as contradictory, this role is not suitable. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on group activities, camp counseling for young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.What You Will Be DoingFacilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, concentration, feedback practices, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student remains on track for weekly application targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, performance boards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child.Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's competency-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing targeted coaching to students who do not achieve passing scores until mastery is demonstrated.Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level through songs, narratives, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining concrete, trackable standards for first and second graders.Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at morning arrival AND the adult who will not accept minimal effort.What You Won’t Be DoingDelivering lectures at the front of the room. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with fidelity and adaptation.Passively monitoring children at workstations. Motivation in this role is intentional, individualized, and continuous.Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.Evaluating take-home assignments, conducting test preparation for standardized assessments, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.Early Childhood Educator Key ResponsibilitiesEnsure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.Basic RequirementsWilling 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 support provided).Bachelor's degree in any subject.At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (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.Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.Nice-to-have RequirementsExperience 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.About AlphaWant 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 usThis 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-5634-US-BeverlyH-EarlyChildhood