"I got my time back, and I still get to be passionate and work with students."

— Christie, former school principal, now Alpha Reading Specialist

Alpha is hiring.

$100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits

40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support

You can hear a miscue and name the gap behind it: the vowel team she never locked in, the blend he guesses his way around. You will use that here every day. What's harder is the moment right after. When a six-year-old is stuck in front of you, close to tears, and the right move is almost never to hand them the answer.

That's because Alpha looks nothing like the school you trained in or the pull-out room you may have worked from. Students finish their entire academic core in about two hours each morning, working independently on AI-adaptive apps, no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guide. The rest of the day combines life-skills workshops and targeted reading interventions. The adults here are called Guides rather than teachers, and that is not a euphemism: you are not delivering content. You are making sure your students do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app cannot do it for them.

You are with the same students from morning launch to closing: core learning, workshops, focused reading sessions, lunch, recess, and check-chart time. About 70% of your day is Guide work and about 30% is reading-specialist work. That balance gives you the whole child, not just a reading score, and lets you turn a diagnosed gap into a visible transfer while the student is still part of the day's learning community.

Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do both parts well. The ones who prove they can motivate students, hold the standard, and close reading gaps help hire and train the Guides who come next and write the programs other campuses run on. Some move into a lead role coaching a team, where the judgment behind the literacy work becomes the whole job. That path is earned, not handed to you on day one. We recruit nationally, so apply for the campus that fits you best and name your preferred location if you are open to more than one.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferred
• Coaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goal
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their age
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Planning lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic
• Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading work is about 30% of your week and happens inside the school day, not beside it
• Delivering a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequence
• Writing IEPs and 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees
• Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them from launch to closing

Reading Interventionist Key Responsibilities

Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps that keep them from getting there on their own.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, with relocation support
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar settings where kids showed up because of you
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required
• Comfortable spending about 70% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and about 30% on focused reading interventions integrated into the school day
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You can keep a room of six-year-olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activity
• Tired children kept coming back to your after-school or summer program
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and say how you did it
• You have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid

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 $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

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