The most important classroom technology nowadays is not a classroom projector, laptop or tablet – it's the swivel chair, according ... universities – including Ball State University and ...

But it's not. It’s a typical elementary school classroom with desks, a white board and books. However, instead of chairs, her students sit on exercise balls. Several elementary school buildings ...

Walking into Spaetig's frog-themed classroom for the first day of school, students and their parents were taken aback to see inflated exercise balls in place of chairs. Some of the children ...

Traditional classroom setups are being challenged ... "I don't like sitting on a chair all day ... so I started sitting on a yoga ball, and I find I'm more alert," Giuliano said.

This year, her classroom has a few standing desks and a curved low table with floor cushions. Another table is surrounded by child-sized bouncy chairs — exercise balls inserted into wheeled chairs.

All the children in Kimberly Vondran's second grade class sit on bouncy balls ... in another second grade classroom where students were sitting on traditional chairs. "We were pleased to find ...

It might be expected there'd be chaos with 7 year olds on bouncy balls, but in Hedges' classroom the kids are calm. Hedges replaced the standard chairs with the exercise balls this year with the ...

St. Arnauld started incorporating movement into her classroom about ... can sit on exercise balls, bounce their feet against rubber bands looped around the legs of their chairs, chew gum, suck ...

After having the ball chairs for a year, Oppy thinks it's helped her students focus better. "I think the behavior overall after a long term is much better in the classroom," Oppy said. Oppy is the ...

That has been amazing.” Gladstone-Lamas said she was inspired to try flexible seating in her classroom a few years ago after using a yoga ball instead of a desk chair. In years past she’s ...