Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Alpha. Have you got what it takes?
Are you passionate about equipping the next generation with real-world skills that schools often overlook? Do you have a knack for turning complex concepts into engaging, hands-on projects? If so, Alpha Schools has a unique opportunity that will challenge your creativity and make a lasting impact on Kindergarten - 8th grade (K-8) education.
At Alpha, we're revolutionizing education by focusing on what truly matters: preparing students for life, not just tests. You'll create innovative, project-based workshops that will be implemented across our entire network of schools, empowering hundreds of K-8 students with essential skills for their future success.
Unlike traditional curriculum developers, you won't create passive, lecture-based content. Instead, you'll design dynamic, real-world workshops that challenge students to master crucial life skills through creative struggle and hands-on experience. Your workshops will cover everything from public speaking and critical thinking to personal finance and emotional intelligence.
Why you'll love this role:
What You Will Be Doing
Design and develop an innovative life skills curriculum that results in measurable improvements in K-8 students' personal effectiveness and readiness for future challenges.
Basic Requirements
Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:
Working with Crossover
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. 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.
What to expect next:
Are you passionate about equipping the next generation with real-world skills that schools often overlook? Do you have a knack for turning complex concepts into engaging, hands-on projects? If so, Alpha Schools has a unique opportunity that will challenge your creativity and make a lasting impact on Kindergarten - 8th grade (K-8) education.
At Alpha, we're revolutionizing education by focusing on what truly matters: preparing students for life, not just tests. You'll create innovative, project-based workshops that will be implemented across our entire network of schools, empowering hundreds of K-8 students with essential skills for their future success.
Unlike traditional curriculum developers, you won't create passive, lecture-based content. Instead, you'll design dynamic, real-world workshops that challenge students to master crucial life skills through creative struggle and hands-on experience. Your workshops will cover everything from public speaking and critical thinking to personal finance and emotional intelligence.
Why you'll love this role:
- Autonomy to innovate and push the boundaries of educational content
- Opportunity to make a lasting impact on students' lives across the globe
- Work with cutting-edge technology and AI in education
- Collaborate with a brilliant, international team of educators and innovators
- Flexible, remote work environment
What You Will Be Doing
- Designing innovative, engaging life skills curricula that challenge and inspire K-8 students
- Developing comprehensive workshop plans with clear learning objectives, activities, and assessment criteria
- Creating and implementing objective grading systems to measure life skills mastery
- Pilot testing new workshops, analyzing results, and continuously iterating based on data and feedback
- Collaborating with an international team to refine and align curriculum materials
- Leveraging advanced technology and AI to validate the effectiveness of life skills education
- Teaching or directly managing students - your focus is on creating exceptional content that others will facilitate
- Following a rigid, pre-existing curriculum - you'll have the freedom to innovate and experiment
- Designing one-size-fits-all workshops - you'll create content that can be differentiated for various learning styles and skill levels
Design and develop an innovative life skills curriculum that results in measurable improvements in K-8 students' personal effectiveness and readiness for future challenges.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Experience creating trainings or curriculum in a professional capacity
- Demonstrated ability to maintain high quality standards in previous work
- Track record of developing educational content that resulted in measurable skill mastery
- Passion for life-skills education for K-8 students
- Comfort with working autonomously and continuously iterating on curriculum development projects
Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:
- Students love school.
- Students learn two times faster than in a traditional school.
- Students learn life skills.
Working with Crossover
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. 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.
What to expect next:
- You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
- Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
- First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
- Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
- Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
- If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.