Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles instruction. Your role is to help a child believe they're capable of something they once thought impossible.

At Alpha, academic work takes students just two hours daily, completed through adaptive learning technology. This frees Guides to concentrate on transformational work: developing confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be standing at the front of a room delivering lessons. Instead, you'll be coaching students through obstacles, recognizing achievements, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief.

You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly targets. Every moment counts. Students should exit your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave your coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they imagined.

This position isn't designed for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's intended for someone who enjoys motivating young children, excels with measurable results, and believes the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've energized kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of classroom here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus.

Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.

If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback, and other lasting skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine understanding—not merely attendance.
• Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, movement, and narrative for younger children or greater independence and responsibility for older students.
• Cultivate the types of relationships where students feel secure enough to push beyond what they believed they could accomplish.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing at a whiteboard teaching academic lessons. Students learn academics through adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
• Observing students work quietly on computers. Your role involves active coaching, motivation, and connection.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success derives from supporting students to meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
• Managing homework, grading papers, or handling routine parent communication.

Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, regularly accomplish ambitious learning goals, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA. Relocation assistance is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
• Experience leading group activities for young children, with a concrete example of the structure or routine you used and how you kept the group engaged.
• A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
• A concrete example of changing your approach based on feedback and the result.
• Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
• The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
• Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
• Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits ( https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/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-Miami-KindergartenTe.005