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Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in Charlotte, NC at Crossover
Title: Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Charlotte, NC
- $120,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
- On-site role at an Alpha campus; 13 US locations spanning CA, CT, FL, IL, and MA (complete list below; relocation assistance available)
An AI platform can teach a six-year-old to decode words. It cannot make her want to. Bridging that gap is what you do.
At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic learning through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. No traditional lessons. No paper exercises. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. A structured playbook exists, but high performers in this role tailor it to their group and create new activities when needed. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. Building trust earns you leverage to demand more. Demanding more shows them you know they are capable.
A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three and the role was not fulfilled. In your first year you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role is not for you. If you have been an early-elementary educator 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 receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep every student progressing toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you establish with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass on first attempt until they achieve mastery.
- Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and playfulness while still expecting first and second graders to meet clear, quantifiable benchmarks.
- Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering lectures at the board. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Passively monitoring kids at computers. Motivation here is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. If a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
- Evaluating homework, preparing for standardized testing, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not apply here.
Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that 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 assistance provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any field.
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (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 goal itself, your approach, and the result.
- Willingness to allow AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to uphold rigorous standards with students even when they resist.
- Legally authorized to work 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 accountability for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to a demanding standard is consistent behavior, not an adopted stance.
- Natural ability to command attention with young children: the capacity to engage a room of kindergarteners through vocal expression, humor, and physical energy.
- Proven success in transforming hesitant 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-Charlott-KindergartenTe
