Reading Program Coordinator

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, health/dental/vision coverage begins day one
• Full-time on-site placement at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• 40-hour workweek, 100% in classroom with K-2 learners

You've invested years developing expertise in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading. You can identify a student's miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic weakness to address. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted program. That level of knowledge is the baseline. It is not your differentiator.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is fundamentally a Guide: a dynamic, magnetic presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy knowledge opens the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the offer. If the phrase "dynamic, magnetic presence" does not fit you, this role is not the right match.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications—no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where a human specialist cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops based on live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students meet their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game mechanics).

Your initial months focus on building classroom rapport. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" feedback (target: 90%+) measure this directly. Once you establish that foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your methods become the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Prior to an offer, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full-day campus visit working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credentials. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), developed from live student performance data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students meet weekly adaptive-app targets, applying Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game mechanics)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding probes to monitor growth and refine subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance outputs from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, not solely during advance planning
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see every day

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student performance data
• Delivering whole-group lectures; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with children daily
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Assigning grades for homework or report cards; student progress is captured in app analytics and your assessment records

Reading Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding.

Basic Requirements

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any field, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, applying systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to design independent reading lessons and explain your instructional content and methods without depending on a published program
• Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 learners (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technology into daily teaching
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without visa sponsorship
• English/Spanish bilingual fluency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency growth in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) you can reference with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid models)
• Experience performing, coaching youth athletics, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom

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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4849-US-GrandPra-ReadingProgram.030