- $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
- On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
The most powerful way to support a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that standard feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations demonstrates your belief in a student's capability, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze their progress via Coachbot analytics, and drive each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. You will not follow a script — workshops provide a foundation, but the most effective in this role customize them and create new ones when needed.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of those three means missing the mark. In your first year you will master the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching, need curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let students give up, or a performer who could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify needs
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your connection with each student to overcome resistance
- Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and working with students who don't pass until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who need candid conversation and accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their abilities
- Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven playbook with energy and narrative
- Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation here is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly goal to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
- Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
- Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined goals
- Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is natural to you, not performative
- Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged participants
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules.
Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Houston-Associate.001
Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
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2-5 years $50.00/hr - $50.00/hr
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29 April 2026
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Download Resume- $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
- On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
The most powerful way to support a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that standard feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations demonstrates your belief in a student's capability, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze their progress via Coachbot analytics, and drive each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. You will not follow a script — workshops provide a foundation, but the most effective in this role customize them and create new ones when needed.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of those three means missing the mark. In your first year you will master the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching, need curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let students give up, or a performer who could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify needs
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your connection with each student to overcome resistance
- Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and working with students who don't pass until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who need candid conversation and accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their abilities
- Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven playbook with energy and narrative
- Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation here is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly goal to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
- Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
- Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined goals
- Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is natural to you, not performative
- Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged participants
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules.
Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Houston-Associate.001