Reading Program Coordinator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

Job Summary

$120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage beginning day one.

Full‑time on‑site at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, South Bay (LA), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, FL, Chicago, IL, Boston, MA, Charlotte, NC, or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available).

40 hours per week, 100% direct classroom engagement with K‑2 students.

About the Role
Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently on AI‑adaptive platforms. No lectures, textbooks, or district pacing calendars. Your role is the irreplaceable human element. You build 20‑minute small‑group workshops using live app data; sessions are brief intentionally, because targeted precision outperforms duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to bring 100% of your students to weekly app targets using Alpha’s motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification). You catch a student’s error mid‑session, identify the phonemic deficit, and redesign the next day’s workshop before leaving campus. That is the expectation.

Families who select these campuses prioritize Alpha for results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly updates on their child’s reading trajectory and engage actively. You will field specific questions about individual student performance, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic challenge, and outline your instructional response. That level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

In the initial months you focus on establishing credibility in the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and “love your Guide” survey scores (target 90%+) assess that directly. Once you prove it, your influence expands beyond your classroom: successful strategies become templates for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading instruction scales as Alpha expands.

What You Will Be Doing

Design small‑group K‑2 reading workshops using real‑time adaptive‑app data, rooted in structured‑literacy approaches.

Conduct daily motivation sessions that guide 100% of your students to weekly app targets using Alpha’s motivational system (campus currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate gamification).

Analyze AI‑generated performance metrics (fluency trends, decoding precision, comprehension signals) to modify instruction mid‑day rather than only during planning time.

Deliver running records, fluency assessments, and decoding probes to generate gains that appear in the weekly campus data review.

Serve as the energetic, approachable adult your K‑2 students are excited to see every day.

What You Won’t Be Doing

Implement a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district‑mandated pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student data.

Deliver whole‑class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps.

Serve as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district‑level coordinator; you work in the classroom with students daily.

Manage 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 instead.

Draft IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic documentation; student progress is captured in app analytics and your running records, not special‑education compliance forms.

Key Responsibilities
Generate measurable K‑2 reading advancement across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes are evaluated weekly.

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 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 design original reading lessons and clearly articulate instructional methods and content, independent of a published program.

Readiness to work on‑site full‑time at one Alpha campus (listed above).

Readiness to instruct all K‑2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive‑learning technologies into daily practice as those tools develop.

Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice‑to‑have Requirements

Direct experience with AI‑driven or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i‑Ready, Reading Plus) for lesson planning or student data interpretation.

Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy growth, decoding level progression) you can quantify precisely.

Familiarity with diagnostic reading tools (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups.

Background in high‑accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring with outcome‑focused families).

Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other contexts requiring sustained K‑2 audience engagement outside traditional reading instruction.

Position Details
This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. The position is immediately available. The compensation level is $120,000 per year, paid weekly.

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