Overview
Lead Pre-K Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in New York, NY at Crossover
Title: Lead Pre-K Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: New York, NY
- On-site position in New York City, NY
- $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one.
- Relocating? Support is available.
Do you believe meaningful learning begins with joy, movement, and trust?
Alpha School is reimagining education where children achieve academic mastery quickly and dedicate more time to developing life skills. For Pre-K learners, this begins with something even more essential: emotional security, curiosity, and the resilience to keep trying.
Your role: oversee an in-person Pre-K cohort in NYC that develops a love for learning while demonstrating accelerated early development—approximately 2x the growth seen in traditional preschool settings. You will create purposeful, sensory-rich play experiences that incorporate developmental milestones, then track progress on a weekly basis and adapt quickly to meet each child's needs.
NYC offers: Parks ideal for outdoor exploration, diverse communities with engaged families, exceptional public transportation, and access to innovative early childhood education networks.
Create joy. Drive growth. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Plan and lead 30–60 minute play-based learning sessions that foster joy, emotional security, and quantifiable developmental progress
- Establish a movement- and sensory-responsive classroom environment that sustains high engagement and supports four-year-olds learning through varied modalities
- Conduct real-time observation and documentation: Record same-day, objective observations linked to developmental domains, then refresh each child's milestone tracker weekly
- Leverage data to inform teaching: Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child's next developmental step and design targeted instructional responses
- Develop individualized, interest-driven activity modifications tailored to each child's motivations, integrate one specific developmental objective, and reassess outcomes within two weeks
- Support children through challenging moments using calm co-regulation and emotional guidance instead of reactive behavior management
- Share student progress, daily routines, and emerging issues clearly and proactively with families
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Approach Pre-K as custodial care rather than purposeful early education
- Default to scripted worksheets or compliance-focused instruction as your primary teaching method
- Spend the majority of your day supervising academic apps rather than facilitating live, tactile learning experiences
- Apply reactive behavior management techniques in place of calm co-regulation and emotional coaching
Lead Pre-K Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure NYC Pre-K children develop a love of school while achieving accelerated early-learning gains through purposeful play.
Basic Requirements
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio credential
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with 3–5-year-olds in a structured group environment (classroom setting, not exclusively one-on-one care)
- Proven track record facilitating play-based learning that produces measurable developmental gains
- Verified ability to document developmental milestones objectively and reliably on a weekly schedule using a structured framework or rubric
- Strong relationship-building and emotional attunement: Capacity to establish trust rapidly, interpret emotional signals accurately, and apply individualized motivators to drive engagement
- Co-regulation and frustration scaffolding: Support children through emotional escalation using calm modeling and systematic emotional coaching
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
- Available to work full-time on-site in New York City, NY
About Alpha
Join the team building school around student growth
Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.
Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.
Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.
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-5746-US-NewYork-LeadPreKTeache.004
