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2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in Houston, TX at Crossover
Title: 2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Houston, TX
- $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site position at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
You are not a teacher. You are a motivator.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that approach feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, K-3 students complete their academics through AI-driven apps in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd) — and customize your approach, pace, and workshops to that band. No traditional lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as a foundation, not rigid scripts — the most effective Guides adapt them to their cohorts and create new ones when needed. The remaining half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are essential for sustaining attention long enough to teach effectively. Warmth establishes the trust that allows you to challenge them. Challenge demonstrates your belief in their capability.
A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the job was not done. In your first year, you master the operational model; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, the progression to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work.
If you prefer traditional instruction, need curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as conflicting, this position is not suitable. If you've been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and presence, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students on track for weekly app targets, utilizing Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, physical activity, and humor, while maintaining genuine, measurable expectations for second and third graders
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering lectures from the whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not through direct instruction
- Creating curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the operational framework and you execute it
- Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this environment is active, individualized, and continuous
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student is struggling, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the goal
- Assessing homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and completes the year saying they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, or youth program facilitation)
- A concrete example you can describe of guiding a young child toward a challenging goal: the specific goal, your actions, and the result
- Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives
- Personal record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and physical engagement
- Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into confident, engaged contributors
About Alpha
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-5149-US-Houston-2ndGradeTeache.001
