WILDWOOD — James Carpenter, 9, is more than happy to demonstrate the new bouncy chair in his classroom at the Glenwood Avenue School. He’s already developed a system to carefully bounce and write at ...

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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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Donna Yehl’s fourth-grade students bob behind their desks, heads nodding up and down as if the children were on the deck of a ship. But they aren’t fidgeting. The two dozen children in ...

It’s the era of students in motion. Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of ...

Enzo Delia, a second grader at Hershey Elementary School, sometimes daydreams in class. But all he has to do is roll back and forth a bit on his red bouncy ball to remind himself to focus, he said. "I ...

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 ...

Talk about a teacher's dream: No more slouching, no more wiggly little boys and no more snoozing at desks. All teachers have to do is ditch the classroom chair. A growing number are replacing them ...

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 ...

NEW HARTFORD --- Dike-New Hartford Junior High fifth- and sixth-grade teacher Susan Parker has incorporated exercise balls in her classroom, not for physical education, but to replace desk chairs. A ...