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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.

Heads bob up and down like boats on a choppy lake in Beth Martin's Hambright Elementary School classroom. A soft swishing sound permeates the room as Martin introduces her bobbing fifth-graders to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...