Overview
Early Childhood Educator, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in Miami, FL at Crossover
Title: Early Childhood Educator, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Miami, FL
- On-site at an Alpha School campus (Boston, MA
- Chicago, IL
- Greenwich, CT
- Lake Forest, CA
- Miami, FL
- Palo Alto, CA
- Piedmont, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Santa Monica, CA; relocation assistance available)
- $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- School-year calendar with predictable hours
The most constructive response to a 6-year-old who achieved 99% is to withhold calling it 100%. If that principle doesn't resonate with you, this role isn't the right fit. If it strikes you as self-evident — if you hold that children meet the expectations set before them — this position was designed for you.
Alpha operates outside the traditional school model. Students progress through academics via adaptive software calibrated to their current level and individual pace. There are no classroom lectures. No standardized worksheets distributed to 25 students assumed to be at the same point. Instead, each child engages with personalized learning applications while you, serving as their Guide, support them through the challenging moments: maintaining concentration when difficulty increases, working through frustration, and recognizing genuine mastery rather than mere participation.
Your day begins with motivation sessions: analyzing each student's performance data from their learning apps, establishing daily objectives, and identifying the appropriate motivational approach for each child. That might involve a leaderboard competition, school currency incentives, or a direct conversation about their potential. The afternoon transitions to life skills workshops where you facilitate instruction in public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchange through project-based, hands-on activities. You'll administer mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) where students demonstrate internalized understanding of each skill, not simply exposure to content. Throughout, you're guiding emotional regulation, building resilience, and developing problem-solving abilities with consistent expectations and genuine warmth.
Guides who excel in this role advance to Lead Guide positions, where they mentor teams of Guides while continuing direct work with their own student cohort. The progression from "I transformed the trajectory of these 15 children" to "I'm developing the team that impacts hundreds" is tangible and achievable. If traditional education hasn't appealed to you but you recognize that what occurs between ages 4 and 7 establishes the foundation for everything after — apply.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions with K-2 students: analyzing Coachbot performance data, establishing personalized objectives, and applying Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, individual coaching) to achieve 100% goal attainment
- Leading one-hour life skills workshops focused on public speaking, sustained attention, feedback exchange, and time management — all hands-on and project-based, aligned with Alpha's curriculum playbook
- Supporting emotional regulation, resilience development, and problem-solving skills in coordination with Reading Specialists who provide literacy instruction
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations where students prove internalized understanding of each life skill before advancement
- Developing authentic relationships with individual students by understanding their interests, capabilities, and challenges so your coaching is tailored, not formulaic
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Standing at the front of a classroom delivering academic instruction. Students learn academic content through adaptive applications, not direct teaching from you.
- Creating curriculum materials independently. Alpha supplies the life skills curriculum and lesson frameworks; your role is to execute them effectively.
- Advancing students who haven't shown mastery. A 99% result means you coach them to 100%.
- Supervising children passively on computers. Every moment is intentionally structured around active coaching, motivation, and skill development.
- Handling parent communications or campus-wide administrative functions. Those responsibilities belong to the Campus Lead.
Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-2 students who are engaged and enthusiastic about learning, progress through adaptive curriculum at double the conventional rate, and develop critical life skills.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Minimum of 3 years working with children ages 4–7 (classroom education, afterschool programs, youth coaching, camps, or comparable settings)
- Demonstrated ability to manage groups of young children with both clear structure and strong engagement
- Effective storyteller and dynamic presenter capable of capturing and holding the attention of 5-year-olds
- Shows consistent growth in response to feedback
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Boston, MA
- Chicago, IL
- Greenwich, CT
- Lake Forest, CA
- Miami, FL
- Palo Alto, CA
- Piedmont, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Santa Monica, CA; relocation assistance provided)
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Experience in youth sports coaching, summer camp leadership roles, or afterschool program coordination where you held accountability for both engagement and measurable results
- Performance background (theater, public speaking, improvisational work) that enables you to command attention in a room of young children
- Familiarity with adaptive learning platforms or educational technology tools in classroom or tutoring contexts
- Personal history of high achievement — academically, athletically, or professionally — that informs your commitment to holding students to similarly high standards
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-EarlyChildhood.020
