Bio Jo 🧬📚

Teacher of Science. Adore Biology. Love working in school!

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[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@adamboxer1 @whhtmaternity Wonderful! How exciting - enjoy!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

Beyond heartbreaking. The scars of 7th October. 💔

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

I’ve never shared this before.
A day or two after October 7th, early in the morning, the country was in shock.

Even before the funeral of Mapal Adam z”l, who was murdered at the Nova festival, I went to the home of her sister, Maayan.

Her mother, her brother Yarden, Maayan, and Maayan’s partner Yuval were there.
We sat in the small yard and talked.

Then Roee, Mapal’s boyfriend, arrived and sat down to tell the family for the first time what had actually happened and how Mapal had died.

I stood up to leave such an intimate moment, but the family said to me, “Stay.”

And then, for about an hour, Roee described in a trembling voice, detail by detail,

How he and Mapal hid under a car, and Hili Solomon, Mapal’s best friend, under another car nearby, all surrounded by dozens, perhaps hundreds, of terrorists.

How they stayed silent, pretending to be dead.

How the vile terrorists came and shot them “confirmation shots” at point-blank range.

How the blood flowed from their bodies, and Mapal’s life drained out of her there, as they lay pressed together.

How the monsters came back a second time and shot again, as gasoline from the car leaked and mixed with the blood.

How Roee smeared himself, and I think also Mapal, with blood so they would appear dead.

How for endless hours no one came.

I felt as though I was hearing the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, minutes after being liberated from Auschwitz.

Because that’s what it was. A small Holocaust.
No state. No army.
Jews hiding for hours from murderous beasts.

We all felt that Roee carried crushing guilt for not being able to save the love of his life, Mapal, nor her friend Hili.

Of course, Roee could not have done anything more than he did. He bore no blame whatsoever.

Mapal’s family told him that clearly and embraced him with immense love and compassion.

Since then, as I understand, Roee devoted himself to helping others however he could.

But in the early hours of this morning, two years later, Roee’s strength finally gave out,
and this man, with his wounded soul, took his own life.

Another soul murdered on that cursed day.
**
In the coming days, hopefully already tomorrow, we will celebrate the return of the hostages.

But we must not forget the murdered,
the fallen soldiers and their families,

nor the survivors who struggle every day with the horrors in their minds.

Nor the thousands wounded in body and spirit.
They live among us, and it is our duty to care for them.

This is a matter of national priority.
It is urgent!

The day after we form the government, an authority will be established to care for the victims and their families.
a moral, national, governmental obligation.

May the soul of Roee be bound in the bond of life, alongside the love of his life, Mapal.

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@MrMac_Math That’s a helpful share - thank you. I’ll be doing something very similar from Wednesday next week!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@adamboxer1 I was convinced I’d be pretty good at this 🤦🏻‍♀️ Spotted some but nowhere near all. Looking forward to seeing the follow up/analysis!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@STEMyBanda Dedication but stunningly worth it!

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Just one week to go! Last webinar of the year, all about mini-whiteboards

✅Why
✅How
✅Routines

Tips & tricks for newcomers and old hands alike!

Please share if you can, MWBs are the best 💪💪🙏🙏

https://t.co/WSytez85EK

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@Maths_Devon Absolutely - try @Carousel_Learn for weekly homework. I do 10 questions per week for memorising. Interleaved, spaced practice, repetition. Total game changer for my bottom sets. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

I have lost count of how many times this book has reduced my workload and stress. For new science teachers who teach out of specialty, it’s an essential. Today I used it again and found a perfect combination by adding chocolate chip cookies every few pages. @adamboxer1 🍪 💪🏻

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[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@Primrose_Kitten hiya, I’m struggling to log into my account on your website. Bought the 2025 prediction papers (thank you) and would like to sign in but it’s just a loop of not being able to. Any suggestions?

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

Love this….

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Just finished @MrZachG's excellent guide to direct instruction, Just Tell Them.

Here's a 🧵of pithy and useful quotes:

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[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@STEMyBanda This is gorgeous. What a lovely thing that they noticed, remembered, and told you!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@adamboxer1 I agree it shouldn’t be a necessary condition, but how is this possible for a new teacher, lets say bio trained, who has to teach chem/phy to gcse (& hasn’t done chem/phy since gcse x years ago)? Add in useless SCITT & so needs to self-teach from Lemov/you = 90hrs/week ECT 2yrs

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Hopefully sending out the first one this weekend m, sign up if interested!

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

@adamboxer1 We’ve been chewing on it all week. So much useful and actionable info.

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

I am so delighted that new HoD is discovering @adamboxer1! She loved podcasts on questioning; webinar ‘improving T & L in a dept” (insanely helpful); today we planned our dept observations based on the hypothesis model. https://t.co/Fe6lBOafWN

[Bio Jo 🧬📚 @BioJo4]

It’s so exciting to be in a dept. with a new HoD and 2nd who are keen to develop the dept based on evidence/techniques that work. Our ECT is being Lemov’d. Our order for Springboard is almost ready. Road map via A Chemical Orthodoxy. Exciting times ahead 💪🏻