All About Me: Julien Gemmeli

Julien Gemmeli

"Failure only exists when you stop trying."
- Kobe Bryant

​History Nerd - Tech Lover - Dad of 2

Multiple Choice

I teach History in Yuba City, California, which is one hour North of...

• Sacramento

• Los Angeles

• San Digeo

• San Francisco

​Why Yuba City?

​Depending on which direction you go, you're no more than two hours from:
- Sacramento
- Chico
- Nevada City (Sierra Nevada's)
- Lake Tahoe
- San Francisco
- Coast

- Rich in agricultural production
- Rich in indigenous, Gold Rush and railroad history
- Sutter Buttes, the smallest mountain range in the world

Multiple Choice

Yuba City has the smallest mountain range in the world

• True

• False

River Valley High School

• 4th year at River Valley High School

• APUSH - US History - Gov/Econ

• District Professional Development facilitator

• Member of the district tech committee

• Advisor to the History Club

• Passion for connecting content with real life in an efficient and engaging way

• Master's graduate next June (MA in American History)

Personal Pride

• This year, I started a History Club on my campus to get students engaging with history in person and not just in the classroom

• With over 50 members, students fundraised over $2,000 for field trips to seven different historical sites

• We use Quizizz at our meetings to take roll, present information, and take polls for club decisions

Quizizz Implementation

• First year teaching/induction goal to implement technology, and use data to guide instruction

• Simultaneously, my history department was working to develop and improve our Common Formative Assessments and data collection

• I proposed funding for a year long pilot of Quizizz for the History Department to assess it's utility for our site goals

• After presenting our findings, not just our site, but our district purchased a license for all 12,000 of our students

• Since then, I've joined the district's Tech Committee to continue developing our district philosophy to technology and AI

Reorder

Put the following events in chronological order

• Julien Gemmeli began working at RVHS

• Discovered Quizizz looking for EdTech that engages students

• History department began a yearlong pilot of Quizizz

• Found success as a department in implementation and data collection

• District wide license for 12,000 students purchased

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Gemmeli Teaching Philosophy & Use Cases

• Purposeful Use: every activity on Quizizz connects to standards, goals or real-time student needs (not just for fun)

• Bell Ringers: Short quizzes that activate background knowledge and introduce new topics

• Common Formative Assessments (CFA): This History department at my site has adopted Quizizz to administer our department wide common assessments, informing the discussion in our PLC groups as well as intervention needs

• Data-Driven Reteach: Utilizing the various question modes during lessons, I probe for nuanced thinking as well as class wide understanding of concepts

• Low Stakes Review: Using Quizizz I can push students toward mastery by creating a repetitious approach to retain important information

Multiple Choice

Julien Gemmeli uses Quizizz for all of the following EXCEPT

• Bell Ringer/Openers

• Common Formative Assessments

• Data-Collection to inform instruction

• Mastery based review

• In-depth class discussion