Austin Morris, left, and Olivia Tharp concentrate on solving for the mean, median and mode in Jamie Persinger’s fourth-grade class at Overbrook Elementary School. In March, Persinger’s class gradually ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Brady Stafford sits quietly, his feet flat on the floor with pencil in hand, as he pours over the math problems before him trying to solve for the mean, median and mode. His ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...