Shape your development curriculum

Every club says it has a development philosophy. It's real when a coach writing a goal in February and a coach writing one in August reach for the same words. Clubhouse gives those words two homes, and they do different jobs:

• Key Documents is the club's model written down: values, playing style, periodisation. It sets the club's language.
• Curriculum, inside each programme's IDPs, is a library of ready-made development goals. Its wording becomes the goals in players' plans.

• Settle the club's playing style and development principles first, with your club's other technical directors. The curriculum should read like that model, age group by age group.
• IDPs needs to be switched on for your programme. Roll out player development plans covers the rest of the plan workflow.

Key Documents is shared across the club, so every programme draws on the same model. You'll find it under Settings → Key Documents, and Settings opens from your account menu at the bottom of the sidebar.

Add document, give it a title, choose its FNSW category and write or paste the text. Documents are written text rather than uploaded files, because Clubhouse reads them when it helps coaches draft plan wording. A playing-style document kept here does real work; one kept in a shared drive does none.

Archiving a document takes it out of that reference, so new plan wording stops drawing on it. Archive the old version once its replacement is in.

Open Curriculum in your programme's IDPs. It's arranged the way you'd think about it: by age band, then by unit or position, then by the attributes in each of the four corners.

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Each attribute carries a goal written the SMART way: a title that starts with an action, what the player does, how progress is measured, and actions for training and match day. Write "the player" where the name goes. It fills in with each player's name automatically, so one goal reads naturally in every plan.

When a coach chooses a player's focus areas, the goals in the plan come from here, shaped to the player's position, age group and block dates. Coaches read them but can't change them. So this is where you decide once what "our football" means in writing, instead of correcting it plan by plan.

If your programme's framework hasn't been set up yet, the page says Curriculum in preparation, and the goals appear once it's ready.

Open an attribute to edit its goal. As you write, a checklist reads Looks ready or A few things to tidy, with suggestions such as Include a number or clear measure so progress is obvious. An attribute that still needs work is marked in the list, so you can find the gaps.

• A goal that isn't live yet: Save keeps your draft. Publish changes puts it live once the checklist is happy, and from then on coaches can use it.
• A goal that's already live: Save updates it straight away, and also the matching goals in players' current plans. The confirmation tells you how many, for example Live — updated 12 player goals.

The editor says who a live change reaches, for example Changes here apply to every player in U13/U14 Central Midfield who has this as a focus area. A mid-season edit to a live goal is an edit to real families' plans. Tightening a clumsy sentence is exactly what it's for. Changing what a goal asks of a player mid-block deserves the same care as moving a Season Plan block.

• Before the season. Coaches can't finish a plan with a focus area that has no published goal, so publish the curriculum before the preseason assessment opens. Before your programme starts, the IDPs section offers Review the curriculum for this reason.
• At review windows. When coaches draft in bulk, gaps show up fast. A coach who sees No published curriculum yet on a focus area is waiting on you, so publish that goal and they can carry on.

• Every unit or position your programme fields has published goals across all four corners, with no attributes still marked as needing work.
• Coaches' plans reach your To do with curriculum goals in them.
• Key Documents has your current playing-style and periodisation documents, with superseded versions archived.