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2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in Miami, FL at Crossover
Title: 2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Miami, FL
An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care. Closing that gap is your job.
At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours per day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role adapt it to their specific cohort and design new activities where gaps exist. The other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. Warmth earns you the right to push. Pushing demonstrates that you believe they can succeed.
A quarter is successful when every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Miss any of those three metrics and you have missed the mark. In year one you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you love traditional teaching, want a curriculum delivered to you, or believe warmth and high standards conflict, this is not the job. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching real Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other durable skills, adapting the playbook to your cohort rather than reading from it.
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that keep every student on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the relationship you have built with each child.
- Administering Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
- Meeting kindergarteners where they are with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness while still holding first and second graders to real, measurable standards.
- Being the warm adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not let them coast.
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Lecturing from the whiteboard. Academic instruction is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Writing curriculum from scratch. Alpha supplies the playbook and you bring it to life.
- Supervising kids at computers. Motivation here is active, personal, and relentless.
- Lowering a weekly goal so a student can hit it. If a student is behind, the fix is the student, not the target.
- Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or managing parent communication. Campus Leads handle parent-facing work, and the rest does not exist here.
2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a high bar is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with young children: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant young children into confident, active participants.
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 $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. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Miami-2ndGradeTeache.005
