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 ...

Animals often lift our moods by just being themselves. Their pure joy over life’s simple things can also help us appreciate them. For this Orange cat, it’s playing with a bouncy ball. Instead of being ...

A new grant from SEF provides for stability balls in all the first-grade classrooms at Franklin School in Summit. Using stability balls as seats in the classroom, as an alternative to the traditional ...

Students sit on wobble stools donated through DonorsChoose.org during second-grade reading class at Hexter Elementary. (Ting Shen/Staff Photographer) Peek inside Jennifer Cass’ second-grade classroom ...

CYPRESS – There are 31 fifth-graders in Mr. Bettencourt’s class at Morris Elementary, but only a handful of chairs. Since the first week of school, the students have sat – and often bounced – on ...

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 ...