This report is based on a year-long project that studied the impact of the Storytelling and Children’s Literature (STCL) course, offered as part of the Bachelor of Elementary Education (BElEd) programme, on the personal and professional trajectories of BElEd alumni and teacher educators. The study examines the ways in which BElEd alumni negotiate their agency as teachers and professionals in other educational contexts while working in conservative spaces that are dominated by a skill-based approach to teaching language and literacy. Using narrative interviews, the project intends to capture the lived experiences of teacher educators in eight colleges offering the BElEd programme. The aim is to capture the big and small ways in which STCL as an open-format course has impacted the discourse around the pedagogy of language and literacy. The study reveals that alumni working in different sectors of education have employed storytelling skills and knowledge about children’s literature to nurture the socio-emotional growth and literacy skills of their students.