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Elementary School Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in Houston, TX at Crossover
Title: Elementary School Teacher, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Houston, TX
- $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site role 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 here to teach. You are here to motivate.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. No traditional lectures. No paper worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. These workshops provide a foundation, not a rigid script — the most effective people in this position customize them for their group and create new ones when gaps emerge. During the remaining half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child to complete 100% of their weekly app objectives. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are essential tools for maintaining attention and enabling learning. Warmth creates the trust that allows you to challenge them. Challenge demonstrates your confidence in their abilities.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role's core expectations are not met. In your first year you'll internalize the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to work directly with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching methods, need a pre-built curriculum handed to you, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you've excelled as an early-elementary teacher who loved circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can captivate a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and sheer 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-2 students covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each student
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, stories, physical activity, and humor, while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders
- Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their best
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
- Passively monitoring children on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the goal
- Grading take-home work, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Elementary School Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes 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 assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (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 actions, and the result
- Available to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Authorized to work legally in the US without requiring 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 track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is intrinsic, not performative
- Natural stage presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and physical energy
- Proven ability to transform 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-Houston-ElementaryScho.005
