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Interview #2: Yasemin Bozoglu Erdinc on school culture and wellbeing
InterviewsEpisode 4117 minJune 28, 2026

Interview #2: Yasemin Bozoglu Erdinc on school culture and wellbeing

Yasemin Bozoglu Erdinc, IB Diploma theory of knowledge teacher and parent

A teacher and parent on how much of student stress is environmental, and what adults can change about the culture around young people.

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About this episode

How closely do you think student wellbeing and stress are connected to the school environment? In this episode, let's meet Mrs. Yasemin Bozoglu Erdinc, an IB DP Theory of Knowledge (TOK) teacher, to explore student wellbeing, common challenges teenagers face today, and her insights as both an educator and a parent!

Key takeaways

  1. 1

    The school environment shapes wellbeing as much as any individual habit.

  2. 2

    Seeing the same problem as an educator and as a parent reveals different levers.

  3. 3

    Questioning how we know what we know is itself a wellbeing skill.

Try this tonight

Identify one environmental stressor in your week that you have been treating as a personal failing.

Journal prompt

“How much of my stress belongs to me, and how much belongs to the environment I am in?”

Write about it