Austin Morris, left, and Olivia Tharp concentrate on solving for the mean, median and mode in Jamie Persinger’s fourth-grade class at Overbrook Elementary School. In March, Persinger’s class gradually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Heads bob up and down like boats on a choppy lake in Beth Martin's Hambright Elementary School classroom. A soft swishing sound permeates the room as Martin introduces her bobbing fifth-graders to a ...

CYPRESS, Calif. — There are 31 fifth-graders in Mr. Bettencourt’s class at Morris Elementary, but only a handful of chairs. Since the first week of school, the students have sat — and often bounced — ...

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 ...