Curricula has just evolved to "Program". There are two new ways to help you plan individually even within a group context:
Suggest spots learning threads across your children and proposes group plans.
Group → individual tailoring lets you write one document for a group and have Mana create a personalised version for each child.
Here's how each one works, and when to reach for it.
Suggest: find learning threads across every child
Tap Suggest in your curriculum. Mana reads across every child's Journey goals, looks for threads of similar learning, and proposes group plans that serve those children together.
Each suggestion comes with the why- a short explanation of how the plan connects to each child's individual goal.
Why use it
Spots threads you might miss. Finding common threads across 20–40 children by hand is hard. Mana does the cross-child scan in seconds.
Stays genuinely child-led. Suggestions come from your children's actual goals, not generic activity templates.
Shows its reasoning. The why tells you which goals each suggestion is responding to, so you can sense-check it before you act.
Strong evidence for assessment. A clear line from individual goals → group experience makes intentional, child-led practice easy to demonstrate.
How to use it
Make sure your children have current Journey goals / content. Suggest reads from these.
In your program, click Suggest.
Review each suggestion. You'll see the program area it fits and the why behind it.
Accept a suggestion to create the group plan.
Link it to the relevant children with Add to journey to generate their tailored versions (see next section).
Group → individual tailoring
Write a group plan or learning story once. When you select Add to Journey for each focus child, Mana creates a tailored version in their Journey. Review each version before using or sharing it.
Started in one child’s Journey? Return to the Journey board and use the story card’s Options → Copy to menu. Copying duplicates the wording, so personalise each copy. See Use one learning story for several children.
Why use it
Write once, individualise everywhere. No more bulk group documents that lack individual learning.
Each child still gets a personal record. Their tailored version sits in their journey, ready for next steps and reflection.
Use it for group documents. Create child-focused copies of plans, learning stories and observations.
Review privacy before sharing. AI tailors the text for the selected child. Check the wording and any copied photos for other children's private details.
Strong evidence for assessment. The link from group document → each child's individual journey is captured automatically.
How to use it
From your program, open or create a group document. Save it, then open Follow Ups. Check Focus children; select Add child if someone is missing.
Select Add to Journey beside each intended child. This creates an AI-curated version in their Journey; adding a name to the focus list alone does not.
Select Open document to review each child’s version before using or sharing it. Mark the group document and each child’s version complete separately as the work happens.
Tip: Add to journey is a deliberate action. Only link a group document to the children it's genuinely for, keeping the Journey focused and meaningful.
Get the most out of these updates
Start with individual journeys. Suggest is only as good as the journey content it reads from. Keep each child's individual context current.
Link with intention. Use Add to journey on the children a document is genuinely for, not by default.
Use tailoring for stories, not just plans. Write one group learning story and let Mana individualise it for each focus child.
Reflect at completion. When you close a cycle, complete each child's tailored version first, then mark the group document done. That keeps reflection grounded in what actually happened.