Overview
Elementary School Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT at Crossover
Title: Elementary School Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
- $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- On-site position at an Alpha campus located 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)
This role is about motivation, not instruction.
When a six-year-old reaches 99% of their target, the most empowering response is to hold the line. If that expectation creates discomfort, this position is not a fit. If it resonates because maintaining high standards demonstrates belief in young learners, continue reading.
Alpha students in grades K-3 complete academics through AI-driven applications in two daily hours. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band — K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop delivery to that specific group. There are no lectures or worksheets. Half your day is devoted to one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. Workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — top performers customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps appear. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives. For five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are foundational; they sustain attention long enough to enable real learning. Warmth creates the relationship that earns permission to challenge. Challenge communicates your confidence in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% or more report loving you. Falling short on any metric means the role has not been fulfilled. Year one is for mastering the system; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold expectations, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.
If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, require a prescribed curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role will not suit you. If you have experience as an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and presence, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect energizes you, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 students in grades K-3, covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions to maintain student progress toward weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport established with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery assessment) for every life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Engaging kindergarteners with songs, stories, physical activity, and humor, while maintaining measurable standards for second and third graders
- Serving as the warm presence children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not accept less than their best effort
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you
- Designing curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
- Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this model is hands-on, individualized, and continuous
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a student can meet it; when a child falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not changing the goal
- Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment
Elementary School Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, 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 Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can describe of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, 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 coaching
- 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 high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is consistent with your character, not performative
- Natural stage presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal delivery, playfulness, and physical energy
- Demonstrated success in transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into engaged, confident 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 $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-SaltLake-ElementaryScho.002
