Ross Fox
56 schools · 3,000 staff · 23,000 students
Led strategy, funding and instructional reform as Director of Catholic Education for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
For school-system leaders
See your strategy at work.
Archimeda helps education-system leaders turn strategy into measured progress across teaching, curriculum and school operations. We define the desired outcome, agree how progress will be measured and risk managed, and begin the work within an agreed scope.
You will speak with Ross or Andrew.
The problem
The work that matters most is hard to see.
Strategy is set at the centre, but delivery happens through thousands of daily decisions in classrooms and school offices. Formal observation reaches teachers only occasionally. Curriculum quality can vary between classrooms. Routine administration consumes hours that belong to teaching. When leaders cannot see what is changing, staff are asked to trust another program and boards are asked to wait for results. Leaders need a clearer view of the work, practical support beside it and early signs of progress.
The guide
A senior team on your side.
We know what it means to carry responsibility for strategy, staff trust, budgets and results. Archimeda brings education-system leadership and enterprise technology delivery together in one senior team. You work directly with Ross and Andrew. We start with the outcome your leaders want to achieve, agree the success criteria, measures and risk controls, and begin the work within an agreed scope.
Andrew Thomas
125 staff · A$68.5m FY2014 revenue
Built Thomas Duryea and led the company to its acquisition by Logicalis.
Platform proof
Three working platforms make the approach tangible.
ClassroomIQ
Lesson-specific coaching that begins with what worked and keeps the teacher in control.
About ClassroomIQLesson Factory
Curriculum produced to your specifications, sequence and standards, reviewed by experts before release.
About Lesson FactoryAtlas Automate
Audited workflows that complete defined routine administration and bring each exception to staff with context.
About Atlas AutomateAll three are in pilot use.
The plan
A measured path forward.
1
Define the outcome and conditions for success.
Start with the outcome that matters and understand what is happening today. Together, we define the success criteria, measures and risk controls for the work.
2
Put practical support into use with clear controls.
Begin the work within an agreed scope, shaped by the system's context and requirements. People remain responsible for decisions that depend on judgement, consequence or relationship.
3
Review the results and decide what follows.
Review progress against the agreed success criteria, measures and risk controls. Continue, adapt, stop or extend the work according to the results.
Success
What a term of progress can look like.
Teachers receive coaching tied to their own lessons, beginning with a strength they can build on. Curriculum teams work from a shared, expert-approved sequence. Routine administration moves without teacher hours attached. Leaders see progress against the measures they agreed and can show boards and staff what has changed. Practical support earns trust term by term, and strategy becomes what the system does.
When delivery stays invisible.
Good teachers keep giving evenings to work a system could carry. Effective practice remains isolated in individual classrooms. Curriculum varies, routine work accumulates and another improvement program risks becoming a report rather than a change in practice. Nobody chooses this. It is what happens when leaders are held accountable for work they cannot yet see clearly.
The next step
Bring us the outcome that matters.
An hour with your executive team is enough to clarify the desired outcome, understand what is happening today and consider a useful first step. You will speak with Ross or Andrew, not a sales team.
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