Student teacher Kyler Kudart, center, hands out a pre test in sixth-grade science class to Nick Brummond, Adrianna Murphy, Caroline Jennings and Trevor Mixdorf, as they all sit on a exercise balls at ...

When you walk into Emilie Mena's classroom, you may think it's a yoga studio at first. But it's not. It’s a typical elementary school classroom with desks, a white board and books. However, instead of ...

Perched on a large blue exercise ball at her desk, Trisha Milligan says she is glad she’s been able to replace her classroom chair with a different kind of seat. “I can move around,” said Trisha, 9, a ...

The Garland school district is embracing a new seating arrangement that includes exercise balls. The Walnut Glen Academy for Excellence has ditched traditional classroom chairs for exercise balls.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Brady Stafford sits quietly, his feet flat on the floor with pencil in hand, as he pours over the math problems before him trying to solve for the mean, median and mode. His ...

MOSCOW, Idaho. - Most teachers will tell you getting young students to sit still is next to impossible. So a school in Moscow, Idaho, is trying something new. At the J. Russel School, they're ...

Fourth-graders don’t sit on tiny desk chairs in Liberty Looney’s class. Instead, they hop onto pink, blue and green stability balls. The thick, plastic contraptions, also known as exercise or yoga ...