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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

POTTSTOWN >> Students are riding bicycles, sitting on balance balls and using indoor rowing machines all while in the classroom – and it’s not even for recess. Teachers in the Pottstown School ...

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 ...

Kimberlee Spaetig was the type of kid who just couldn't sit still. She'd always be jiggling a leg, tapping a foot. Now a self-confessed adult wiggler, Spaetig was in a staff meeting a few years ago ...

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 ...

One big ball could be just what you need to rock your core into shape as part of a solid home workout routine. Experts say stability balls help build core strength, prevent back pain and improve ...