Student Learning Coach

This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation position.

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential—then this may be the right fit.

At Alpha, students complete academic work through AI-driven learning apps. There are no lectures or textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics such as public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time is dedicated to individual and small-group sessions, where you use Coachbot analytics to monitor student progress and guide each student toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% involves data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops provide a foundation, and top performers in this role modify them and create new content when necessary.

A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort meet their weekly app goals, demonstrate measurable improvement in life skills via Test2Pass, and rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. When you consistently uphold these standards, advancement opportunities open—first to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer Guides while managing your own cohort, and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent relationships.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other essential skills, modifying existing frameworks and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions to drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and personal rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based assessment) for every life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct communication and personal accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the coming week based on the data

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard instruction; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
• Creating a full curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and customize it using your own style and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and persistent
• Working through layers of approval to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Grading assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Student Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year with a positive view of their experience with you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: what the goal was, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• A record of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional) that reflects a consistent commitment to high standards, not just an adopted stance
• Presentation and storytelling ability sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Proven success converting disengaged or reluctant students into motivated 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 for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5607-US-CollegeS-StudentLearnin.007