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Mentor de Estudiantes, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in San Juan-Carolina Area at Crossover
Title: Mentor de Estudiantes, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: San Juan-Carolina Area
- In-person position at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- Annual compensation of $100,000 ($50/hour, 40 hours weekly), paid each week
- Teaching license not required; Spanish fluency beneficial
The greatest act of support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of a goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this position will not be a fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining standards is the way you demonstrate belief in a child's capability—continue reading.
Alpha School operates on the 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academic work in roughly two hours using adaptive learning applications. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Your responsibility is what the technology cannot provide—guiding students through essential life competencies including public speaking, sustained attention, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will be dedicated to individual motivation work: reviewing learning app dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where a third-grader struggles with fractions or a fifth-grader resists reading assignments, then helping them overcome those barriers. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshop sessions that resemble improv practice more than conventional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth. You'll be responsible for a small student group and become proficient in Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% goal completion while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (overseeing an entire school site). You'll witness a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently present to a room of parents by spring.
Apply if you believe that placing 30 children in rows to listen to one adult underutilizes what young learners are capable of achieving.
What You Will Be Doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify points of difficulty and root causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational systems (leaderboards, reward structures, weekly goal-setting sessions) to ensure each student progresses at the anticipated rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback processes (project-driven and participatory, never lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations and maintaining standards: students may not advance without demonstrating genuine understanding
- Cultivating trust with students so that rigorous accountability feels empowering rather than discouraging
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering lectures or traditional subject-matter instruction (core academic content is learned through adaptive applications, not direct teaching from you)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up—Alpha supplies the curriculum and instructional frameworks; you execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Grading homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; those elements are absent from this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters—Campus Leads manage those responsibilities, allowing you to concentrate on your student cohort
- Providing passive supervision while students use devices; if you're not actively coaching, you're not fulfilling the role
Mentor De Estudiantes Key Responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills objectives.
Basic Requirements
- Available to work on-site at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth programs, camps, or sports coaching
- Demonstrated record of high personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional contexts
- Authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish to strengthen connections with students and families in the Dorado area
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth programs)
- Track record facilitating youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school initiatives where you created the programming, not merely supervised participants
- Prior exposure to adaptive or application-based learning systems (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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-5758-PR-SanJuanC-MentordeEstudi.005
