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

AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her want to. Closing that gap is your work. At Alpha, students in grades K–3 complete their academics through AI‑powered applications in two hours per day. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band—either K‑1 (Kindergarten and first grade) or 2‑3 (second and third grade)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshop delivery to fit that band. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of each day is spent facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the skills of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but top performers in this role customize it to their cohort and create new activities when needed. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, reviewing Coachbot analytics, and coaching every child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates the permission to push. Pushing demonstrates your belief in their capacity. A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life‑skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Fall short on any of those three and the job has not been done. In your first year you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort. If you are drawn to traditional teaching, prefer a fully scripted curriculum, or think warmth and rigor are incompatible, this role is not for you. If you have been an early‑elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a performer in children's theater, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today. What You Will Be Doing Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim. Conducting daily 1:1 and small‑group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you build 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 mastery is achieved. Engaging kindergarteners where they are with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness while maintaining real, measurable expectations for second and third graders. Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop‑off and the adult who will not accept them coasting. What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering instruction from the whiteboard. Academic teaching is embedded in the apps, not in you. Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it. Babysitting students at computers. Motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistent. 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 goal. Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist here. Learning Coach Key Responsibilities Ensure every student in your K‑3 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in 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, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, 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 9 (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 Requirements 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. About Alpha Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential. 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. 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 for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-PaloAlto-LearningCoach.001 #J-18808-Ljbffr Crossover