Literacy Specialist, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

$120,000 annual salary, paid each week, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one Full-time on-site placement at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available) 40 hours per week, spending 100% of your time in the classroom working directly with K-2 students Your structured-literacy training — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most settings, it also marked the limit: you carried out an existing program and documented results. At Alpha, that credential is where your work begins. If that shift resonates with you, continue reading. Alpha has redesigned traditional teaching. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no district pacing calendars. Your position is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops informed by live app data; sessions are intentionally brief because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to guide 100% of students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's error during a session, you identify the underlying phonemic weakness and have the next day's workshop adjusted before you leave. That is the expectation. Families selecting these campuses have prioritized Alpha for results, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly reading growth data for their child, and they ask pointed questions. You will field specific inquiries about individual student progress, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not drain you. Your initial months center on proving your impact. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90%+) provide direct feedback. Once you establish that foundation, your influence grows beyond your classroom: successful methods you develop become templates adopted by other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading instruction scales as Alpha expands. What you create here reaches far beyond your immediate students. Before an offer is extended, you will submit a brief video recording of yourself telling a captivating story suitable for young children, and you will complete a full-day campus visit working hands-on with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That is intentional. Apply today. What you will be doing Creating small-group K-2 reading workshops driven by real-time adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent) Leading daily motivation sessions to ensure 100% of students meet their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification) Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during advance planning Conducting running records, fluency assessments, and decoding evaluations to generate progress visible in weekly campus data meetings Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to interact with daily What you will NOT be doing Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district timeline; you build lessons directly from student performance data Teaching large-group lessons to an entire classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students work through academic subjects on adaptive apps Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you remain in the classroom with students every day Managing a traditional classroom schedule: sequential subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation. Your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic evaluations; student growth is tracked through app data and your running records, not special-education documentation Key Responsibilities Deliver quantifiable K-2 reading progress across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where results are assessed weekly. Candidate 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 discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy Proven capacity to create original reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional methods and content, independent of a published program Availability to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available) Readiness to work with all K-2 students (not limited to struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into everyday instruction as those technologies develop Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship Nice to have Direct experience with AI-driven or adaptive reading systems (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation Documented reading achievement results (fluency increases in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) with specific metrics you can cite Familiarity with diagnostic reading tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring with outcome-focused families) Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or other activities involving engaging a K-2 audience outside traditional reading instruction This position is also known as: Literacy Coach Literacy Program Coordinator Instructional Coordinator Reading Program Coordinator Educational Technology Specialist Reading Coach Learning Specialist Reading Teacher Reading Interventionist Literacy Coordinator Instructional Coach