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Reading Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in New York, NY at Crossover
Title: Reading Teacher, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: New York, NY
- On-site at an Alpha school in Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
- Annual salary of $120,000, paid weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- Daily instruction supported by adaptive learning technology and AI-driven tools
You know that 20 minutes of highly focused, data-informed reading instruction delivers more progress than 90 minutes following a scripted program, and you can back that belief with student results. You've seen learners who plateaued on phonics fundamentals suddenly advance because you identified their specific gap—not because a packaged curriculum dictated the next lesson. If building your own lessons from live student data feels empowering instead of burdensome, this role is for you.
Alpha's reading instruction operates on one core principle: every minute counts. Your sessions are 20-minute workshops designed around each learner's actual needs, not a predetermined pacing calendar. You'll evaluate reading proficiency, organize targeted groups, and provide high-impact structured literacy teaching (phonics, fluency, comprehension) to students aged 4-7 that produces measurable weekly progress. AI-driven adaptive systems work alongside you, producing performance insights you'll apply to refine tomorrow's instruction before today's workshop concludes.
This position evolves over time. During year one, your focus is classroom-centered: facilitating workshops, conducting motivational activities that transform hesitant readers into enthusiastic learners, and supplying detailed classroom observations to the technology team enhancing Alpha's AI literacy platforms. As these platforms expand and your input shapes their development, your influence reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to building a reading framework that functions across multiple campuses, scaling what you accomplish with 15 children into a model that benefits hundreds.
If you've dedicated your career to demonstrating that structured literacy instruction produces results and you're prepared to combine that knowledge with technology that extends your reach, this is where your influence transcends the boundaries of a single classroom.
What You Will Be Doing
- Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops based on your own diagnostic evaluation of each learner's reading proficiency and instructional gaps
- Applying AI-generated performance insights to modify group composition and lesson priorities between sessions, not only at quarterly intervals
- Facilitating motivational activities that cultivate intrinsic reading motivation, incorporating age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
- Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live instruction, then delivering structured input to the technology team regarding effectiveness and areas for improvement
- Monitoring measurable progress (fluency growth, decoding proficiency advances, accuracy gains) and applying these metrics to refine your instructional methods weekly
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Implementing a scripted or prepackaged reading curriculum. You assess needs and create instruction independently.
- Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-format literacy sessions. Instruction is brief, targeted, and intensive.
- Teaching exclusively struggling readers. You'll work with all K-2 learners across varied reading proficiency levels.
- Working independently from technology systems. AI adaptive platforms are integrated into your daily instructional routine, not an occasional supplement.
- Postponing instructional adjustments until quarterly data cycles. You modify your approach continuously based on current data.
Reading Teacher Key Responsibilities
Advance early elementary learners to grade-level reading proficiency using adaptive, AI-supported structured literacy instruction.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (any field)
- Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting within the last 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Capability to develop your own reading lessons and articulate what you teach and how, without depending on a published curriculum
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance available)
- Willingness to integrate AI and adaptive learning platforms into daily instruction and adjust as technology develops
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
- Documented record of measurable student reading progress you can articulate with concrete data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G within one semester)
- Experience partnering with edtech teams, product developers, or instructional design professionals on platform creation
- Background in a startup, micro-school, or alternative educational setting where you developed systems instead of implementing existing ones
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-5632-US-NewYork-ReadingTeacher.030
