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 ...

As they sit as their desks, students in Sara Wright’s fifth-grade class are actually getting quite the workout. That’s because Wright, a Wea Ridge (Indiana) Elementaryteacher, recently swapped out her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP -- Talk about being on the ball. Grand Valley State University student Trish Blake thought her professor was nuts when he told students they could sit on exercise balls instead of ...

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MOLINE — When 8-year-old Tony Poston walks into the room, he sees 27 exercise balls neatly stacked on tables, ready for a long day of bouncing and moving. No, this is not a fitness club, but a ...

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 ...