Alison Cook-Sather is Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Initiative at Bryn Mawr College. She works with undergraduate students seeking state certification to teach at the secondary level and college faculty members interested in developing their teaching. Her research focuses on metaphors for education and student voice, and her most recent books are "International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School", coedited with Dennis Thiessen (Springer 2007), and "Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching" (Uni...