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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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