WeTeach_CS Summit 2026

To become successful software engineers, students need more than syntax mastery — they must be able to reason about their code, communicate their intent, and locate errors with confidence. This session introduces a pedagogical approach grounded in storytelling and self-explanation as cognitive tools for deepening program comprehension.

Participants will learn to teach coding through narrative thinking — framing programs as stories with characters (variables), settings (initial conditions), conflicts (bugs), and resolutions (outputs). Through interactive, hands-on activities, participants will explore how scaffolding a story for coding in their classrooms can foster metacognition, debugging skill, and engagement.