Overview
Pre-K Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in New York, NY at Crossover
Title: Pre-K Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: New York, NY
- On-site position based in New York City, NY
- $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one.
- Relocating for this role? We provide relocation assistance.
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 essential life skills. In Pre-K, this begins with something even more foundational: emotional security, curiosity, and the resilience to persist.
Your objective: guide an in-person Pre-K cohort in NYC that develops a genuine love for school while demonstrating accelerated early-learning outcomes—approximately 2x the progress seen in conventional preschool settings. You will create deliberate, sensory-rich play experiences that integrate developmental objectives, document progress on a weekly basis, and make rapid adjustments for individual children.
NYC offers: Parks ideal for outdoor learning, diverse communities with engaged families, exceptional public transportation, and access to leading early childhood education networks.
Cultivate 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
- Build a movement-rich, sensory-responsive classroom environment that sustains high engagement and enables four-year-olds to learn through varied 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 instruction: Review weekly documentation to pinpoint each child's next developmental edge and design responsive instructional strategies
- Create individualized, interest-driven activity modifications grounded in each child's motivations, integrate one distinct developmental target, and reassess results within two weeks
- Support children through moments of frustration using calm co-regulation and emotional coaching instead of reactive behavioral 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 instead of purposeful early education
- Default to scripted worksheets or compliance-focused instruction as your primary teaching method
- Spend the majority of your time overseeing academic apps rather than facilitating live, hands-on learning experiences
- Substitute calm co-regulation and emotional coaching with reactive behavior management
Pre-K Teacher Key Responsibilities
Ensure NYC Pre-K children develop a love for school while exhibiting accelerated early-learning advancement through deliberate, play-based instruction.
Basic Requirements
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development, OR CDA/Montessori/Reggio certification
- At least 2 years of experience working with children aged 3–5 in a structured group environment (classroom setting, not exclusively one-on-one care)
- Documented success leading play-based learning that produces visible developmental progress
- Proven capacity to record developmental milestones objectively and reliably on a weekly schedule using a structured framework or assessment tool
- Advanced relationship-building and emotional awareness: Capacity to establish trust rapidly, interpret emotional signals precisely, and apply individualized motivators to foster engagement
- Co-regulation and frustration support: 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-PreKTeacher.003
