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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
- $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- On-site role at an Alpha campus spanning 13 US cities across CA, CT, FL, IL, and MA (complete list provided below; relocation assistance available)
An AI can teach a six-year-old literacy. It cannot make her invested. Closing that gap is where you come in.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications over a two-hour daily block. No traditional lectures. No paper worksheets. Half your time is dedicated to facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. A structured playbook is provided, but top performers customize it for their group and develop new exercises when needed. The remaining half involves meeting with students one-on-one or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Building rapport earns the authority to challenge. Challenging them demonstrates your confidence in their capability.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills sessions, and 90% or more report they love you. Fall short on any single metric and you have not fulfilled the role. Year one centers on mastering the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain the standard, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
If you are drawn to conventional classroom teaching, prefer a fully scripted curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not suitable. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on circle time, camp counseling for young children, youth sports coaching, or performing in children's theater, the final stage before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Submit your application today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K–2 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
- Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that maintain every student's trajectory toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for every life skill, and providing additional coaching to students who do not pass on the first attempt until mastery is achieved.
- Engaging kindergarteners with age-appropriate methods such as songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining measurable standards for first and second graders.
- Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see each morning AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their potential.
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering whiteboard instruction. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.
- Developing curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook; you execute and adapt it.
- Passively monitoring students on devices. Motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not changing the goal.
- Assessing homework, preparing for standardized exams, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not apply here.
2nd Grade Teacher Key Responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K–2 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus located 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 assistance provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (including early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your approach, and the result.
- Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Readiness to maintain high expectations with students even when met with resistance.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early childhood education, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
- Personal history of high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that upholding rigorous standards is intrinsic rather than assumed.
- Natural stage presence with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and movement.
- Proven ability to transform reserved or reluctant young children into engaged, confident 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 $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.003
