Visitors to the classroom will find students sitting on a sea of large, bright-green bouncy balls, called stability balls.

Students at a Ralston elementary school traded in their classroom chairs for stability balls, and teachers say there is a noticeable difference in students' behavior.

GREENFIELD — They’re blue, they’re round, they bounce, they’re vanilla-scented, and fifth-grade teacher Kerry Morris loves having them in her classroom. For about a month, t… ...

All teachers have to do is ditch the classroom chair. A growing number are replacing them with exercise stability balls more associated with pilates classes than schoolroom lectures as an ...

Students who violate classroom rules must swap their ball for a chair for the rest of the school day. Martin estimates that's happened about 15 times since the 70 fifth-graders started the ball ...

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 ...

This mixed methods study explores one urban elementary classroom's use of stability ball chairs. Through surveys, interviews, and video observation we investigated the teacher and her students' ...

Peek inside Jennifer Cass' second grade classroom and you won't see kids sitting on desk chairs in rows. Some gently bounce on stability balls.

Resembling exercise balls found in Pilate classes, the ball chairs are on wheels and have backs. The new seats replaced plastic chairs in the classroom.

She decided to let her students try using exercise balls as classroom chairs as well. Moore, who is in her second year of teaching, said she has noticed many of the same benefits as Rerucha.