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

The curriculum is ready. The AI is prepared to deliver content. What you do is help a child discover they're capable of something they never imagined.

At Alpha, academic work is completed in only two hours daily through adaptive learning platforms. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their energy to what transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be positioned at the front of a room delivering instruction.

Instead, you'll be coaching students through obstacles, recognizing achievements, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief in potential.

You'll guide a single K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Approximately half your time involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback.

The remaining half is dedicated to individualized and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and conclude your coaching sessions with greater belief in their own capabilities.

This position isn't designed for someone seeking to implement curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's suited for someone who enjoys motivating young learners, values data-driven results, and understands that the right coach can fundamentally alter a child's path.

If you've energized kids as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different classroom environment here.

This is a full-time, in-person position at an Alpha campus. We conduct nationwide recruitment, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without a campus location.

Current opportunities exist in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).

If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application and specify your preferred location—we'll review you for the relevant opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate interactive life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback, and other foundational skills through active engagement rather than passive instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, validated motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they exhibit genuine comprehension—not merely participation.
• Modify your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, movement, and narrative for younger students or emphasizing greater autonomy and responsibility for older learners.
• Cultivate relationships in which students feel secure enough to extend beyond what they believed they could accomplish.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting academic lessons at a whiteboard. Academic learning happens through adaptive technology.
• Developing curriculum independently. You'll refine and customize established playbooks rather than creating lessons from the ground up.
• Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, motivation, and meaningful engagement.
• Reducing expectations in response to student difficulties. Success means supporting students to meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
• Administering homework, grading assignments, or managing standard parent communications.

Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities

Build a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably reach ambitious learning targets, and develop the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus. Current opportunities exist in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation support is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
• Demonstrated success motivating young children to accomplish demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
• Comfort working with AI-powered learning tools while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistent, high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education, progressive schooling, or highly interactive after-school programs.
• Personal history of pursuing and reaching ambitious objectives in academics, sports, or professional endeavors.
• Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage young children's attention.
• Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active 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 (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.

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Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Seattle-KindergartenTe.001