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, distributed weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one.
- Considering relocation? We provide relocation assistance.
Do you believe authentic learning begins with joy, movement, and trust?
Alpha School is redefining education where children achieve academic mastery quickly and dedicate more time to developing essential life skills. For Pre-K learners, this foundation begins with something even more essential: emotional security, curiosity, and the persistence to explore.
Your role: guide an on-site NYC Pre-K group that develops a love for school while demonstrating accelerated early-learning outcomes: approximately 2x the progress seen in conventional preschool settings. You'll create purposeful, sensory-rich play experiences that integrate developmental objectives, then track progress on a weekly basis and adapt quickly for individual children.
NYC offers: Parks ideal for outdoor education, culturally rich neighborhoods with engaged family communities, extensive public transportation, and proximity to innovative early childhood education networks.
Cultivate joy. Drive growth. Submit your application today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Plan and lead 30–60 minute play-based learning sessions that cultivate joy, emotional security, and quantifiable developmental progress
- Build a classroom environment rich in movement and sensory opportunities that sustains high engagement and enables four-year-olds to learn across multiple modalities
- Conduct real-time observation and documentation: Record same-day, objective observations linked to developmental domains, then refresh each child's milestone tracking weekly
- Leverage data to inform teaching: Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child's next developmental edge and design responsive instructional strategies
- Create individualized, interest-driven activity modifications based on each child's motivations, integrate one targeted developmental objective, and reassess outcomes within two weeks
- Support children through moments of frustration using calm co-regulation and emotional coaching instead of reactive behavior management
- Share student progress, daily routines, and developing concerns transparently 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 most of your day overseeing academic applications instead of facilitating live, tactile learning experiences
- Apply reactive behavior management instead of calm co-regulation and emotional coaching
Lead Pre-K Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure NYC Pre-K children develop a love for school while showing accelerated early-learning advancement through purposeful play.
Basic Requirements
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio credential
- At least 2 years of experience working with 3–5-year-olds in a structured group environment (classroom setting, not exclusively one-on-one care)
- Documented success leading play-based learning that produces observable developmental progress
- Confirmed ability to record developmental milestones objectively and reliably on a weekly schedule using a structured framework or rubric
- Advanced relationship-building and emotional sensitivity: Capacity to establish trust rapidly, interpret emotional signals accurately, and apply personalized motivators to drive engagement
- Co-regulation and frustration support: Support children through emotional escalations 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
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-5746-US-NewYork-LeadPreKTeache.001
