In contrast, high-performance professional education is about solving problems and, beyond that, about posing problems. For example, an excellent teacher can walk into a classroom and identify the areas that need attention. They figure out how to prepare the family for those issues. Innovations is different in that it is an online journal rather than an online community. Its goal is to collect tools and approaches from across the globe that can be disseminated and downloaded worldwide.
Most journals are more interested that something was achieved, and less interested in how.
The intense focus on evaluation at the expense of process actually slows the pace of innovation, because readers can't get a good, narrative description of what works and what doesn't. Information-sharing and critiques of the kind Solomon describes may be easier to do with doctors and nurses than with teachers. While ongoing education is built into the medical and nursing professions, teachers operate in a very different environment, according to Solomon. They operate mostly in self-contained classrooms without even the simplest rudiments of a professional life, such as a telephone, personal computer, or convenient access to professional journals and conferences. Colleagueship is episodic . . .