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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...