Ghost Curriculum Writer Needed for K–3 Character Education Lessons

I am looking for an expert curriculum writer, education consultant, or lesson developer to help create early elementary lessons based on original children’s stories. This is a ghost curriculum writing role. The stories, characters, themes, and overall creative direction will be provided. The contractor will not be asked to create the stories. The contractor will help turn existing story content into clear, practical, classroom-friendly lessons, activities, discussion prompts, and student materials for kindergarten through third grade. The ideal candidate must have strong curriculum development experience and a clear understanding of K–3 child development, early elementary instruction, and ELA standards. Classroom or elementary teaching experience is strongly preferred. The project focuses on character education, life skills, wise decision-making, personal responsibility, respect, self-control, kindness, integrity, gratitude, forgiveness, perseverance, humility, and other timeless values. The ideal candidate will be comfortable writing within a traditional, faith-informed values framework while keeping the materials school-friendly and appropriate for early elementary students. Experience with Christian education, homeschool curriculum, values-based curriculum, character education, SEL/life skills, elementary ELA, classroom guidance, early childhood education, or behavior support materials is preferred. The lessons should be practical, warm, structured, and easy for teachers, counselors, homeschool parents, or classroom adults to use. This project is not looking for vague or trendy SEL language. The goal is to create lessons that help children pause, think, take ownership, make wise choices, repair mistakes, treat others well, and build strong character. The right person must understand early elementary instruction. These lessons should not be built around long lectures or reflection questions where only one or two students answer. Lessons should invite active participation from all students through developmentally appropriate, task-oriented activities. Examples may include sorting cards, matching activities, picture-based comprehension, turn-and-talk prompts, partner practice, movement-based responses, call-and-response language, drawing or coloring responses, cut-and-paste activities, simple writing or sentence frames, act-it-out scenarios, thumbs up/thumbs down choices, circle-the-answer activities, sequencing tasks, quick checks for understanding, and simple role-play practice. Experience with elementary ELA standards is required. The contractor should be able to connect story-based character lessons to early literacy skills such as listening comprehension, story retell, vocabulary, sequencing, character traits, problem and solution, main idea, speaking and listening, oral language, drawing/writing responses, and simple text-based comprehension. The contractor may be asked to create lesson components such as lesson objectives, teacher or counselor scripts, whole-group participation activities, student-friendly discussion questions, vocabulary words or key concepts, reading comprehension questions, ELA-based activities, writing or drawing prompts, role-play scenarios, reflection pages, simple worksheets or student activities, extension ideas, and possible standards-friendly connections. Important confidentiality and ownership requirements: This is a confidential ghostwriting/ghost curriculum role. The contractor must be willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement before receiving full project materials. The contractor must be willing to sign an assignment of rights/work-for-hire agreement. All content created for this project will be owned fully by the client after payment. The contractor may not reuse, resell, publish, share, or claim ownership of the content. The contractor may not include the work in a public portfolio without written permission. Please apply only if you are comfortable with these confidentiality and ownership terms. To apply, please include: 1.A short summary of your curriculum writing or lesson development experience. 2.Your experience with K–3 development, early elementary instruction, and ELA standards. 3.Any classroom or elementary teaching experience.\ 4. Any experience with Christian education, homeschool curriculum, character education, values-based curriculum, SEL/life skills, school counseling, classroom guidance, or ELA lesson writing. 5. A brief explanation of how you would turn a children’s story about self-control, respect, kindness, or responsibility into an interactive K–3 lesson. 6. One example of a whole-group or hands-on activity you might create for young learners. 7. One relevant writing sample, lesson sample, curriculum sample, or worksheet sample if available. 8. Confirmation that you are comfortable signing an NDA and assignment of rights/work-for-hire agreement. This may begin with one paid trial lesson and may grow into a larger ongoing project if it is a good fit. Thank you for applying. Because I may receive a high number of applications, I may only be able to contact candidates whose experience, samples, and application responses appear to be the strongest fit. If it looks like a good match, I’ll reach out with next steps. Please note: This is a project-based contract, not an hourly position. The budget shown may be a placeholder due to platform settings. Final pricing can be discussed with candidates who appear to be a strong fit based on experience, samples, and application responses.