By doing the work to shift from traditional lectures to a dynamic classroom, Professor Dynarski and millions of other postsecondary and secondary school educators can produce better learning outcomes with better lectures.

"Last month, I had the opportunity to sit in on an anatomy class at Ponce School of Medicine, part of Ponce Health Sciences University. I walked in about 15 minutes after the class had started and was struck by the sound: not the stentorian sage-on-the-stage, but rather the hum of student chatter. My first impression was that students sounded distracted. But it was actually the sound of learning.

Ponce employs a flipped classroom model, but Ponce President David Lenihan goes further. He calls it a “dynamic classroom.”...

By doing the work to shift from traditional lectures to a dynamic classroom, Professor Dynarski and millions of other postsecondary and secondary school educators can produce better learning outcomes with better lectures.

"Last month, I had the opportunity to sit in on an anatomy class at Ponce School of Medicine, part of Ponce Health Sciences University. I walked in about 15 minutes after the class had started and was struck by the sound: not the stentorian sage-on-the-stage, but rather the hum of student chatter. My first impression was that students sounded distracted. But it was actually the sound of learning.

Ponce employs a flipped classroom model, but Ponce President David Lenihan goes further. He calls it a “dynamic classroom.”...