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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...