Student Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD
Crossover•Chicago, IL
fulltime
Customer Service, Education, and Training
3+ years
The most disruptive move in education is to stop teaching. Not to stop investing in students—to stop lecturing. To step away from the front of the classroom and abandon the delivery of content that adaptive algorithms now handle with superior speed, precision, and personalization. If that statement provokes resistance, this role isn't for you. If it sparks interest, continue.
Alpha School operates on a model where academic learning happens through AI-driven applications, freeing you to focus on what software cannot replicate: public speaking, sustained attention, grit, and the art of constructive feedback. You won't be delivering traditional lessons. Instead, you'll facilitate workshops. You'll coach. You'll guide a small group of K-12 learners toward challenging weekly targets and enforce those standards with the same rigor you apply to yourself. Students don't rate their Guides highest for being lenient. They rate them highest when their Guide trusts them enough to maintain expectations.
Your inaugural year centers on skill mastery: internalizing Alpha's coaching framework, cultivating trust with your cohort, and ensuring 100% of students meet learning benchmarks each week. Once you demonstrate the ability to uphold these standards while earning student loyalty, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible—a role where you mentor other Guides while continuing to work directly with learners. Alpha is expanding to new campuses, and those who exemplify excellence now will be the architects of its future growth.
If traditional education left you convinced something fundamental was missing, or if you've never worked in schools but always felt capable of reshaping a young person's path, this is where conviction becomes vocation.
What You Will Be Doing
What You Won’t Be Doing
Student Learning Coach Key Responsibilities Guide a cohort of K-12 students who are enthusiastic about learning, accelerate academically through adaptive technology, and develop essential life skills via dynamic workshop experiences.
Basic Requirements
Nice-to-have Requirements
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-5607-US-Chicago-StudentLearnin.008