Giving 16 first-graders each a large, bouncing ball might not sound like the best way to improve their focus in school. But in Sarah Meader's classroom at Karen Western Elementary School, students ...

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 ...

The rule in Becky Tomasello's fifth grade class was clear: "No extreme bouncing." But a little bouncing was expected - and even OK. Starting in March, her students took turns sitting on big orange ...

There’s a lot of movement in Miss Campbell’s second grade class at Hums Elementary in Mishawaka. The kids are not exactly bouncing off the walls, but they are bouncing! “We have stability balls that ...

Students, including Tre Buckner, 7, in front, worked while sitting on their stability balls Friday in Rae Anna Fields' second-grade class at Glenn Marshall Elementary School in Richmond. Photo by ...

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