Student teacher Kyler Kudart, center, hands out a pre test in sixth-grade science class to Nick Brummond, Adrianna Murphy, Caroline Jennings and Trevor Mixdorf, as they all sit on a exercise balls at ...

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 ...

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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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville teacher is trying a unique method to keep kids on the ball in the classroom by working their bodies and their minds. Roosevelt-Perry Elementary teacher Evelyn ...

in Sherwood, one second grade class has scrapped regular chairs for fitness balls in efforts to improve concentration. Wednesday, the students in Sari Hedges' class bobbed up and down at their desks ...

MOSCOW, Idaho. - Most teachers will tell you getting young students to sit still is next to impossible. So a school in Moscow, Idaho, is trying something new. At the J. Russel School, they're ...

ROCHESTER, MINN. - The fidgety boys and girls in Phil Rynearson's classroom get up and move around whenever they want, and that's just fine with him. In fact, stretching, swaying and even balancing on ...