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Flexible learning styles
Alternative seating helps kids be kids
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A student stays engaged in learning while using under-the-desk bike pedals. - photo by Photos courtesy of Great Bend USD 428
All kids have the wiggles even when they are trying to sit still. Instead of fighting that tendency, Priscilla Rose, fourth-grade teacher at Eisenhower Elementary School, is making peace with it.A visit to her classroom reveals student desks and chairs, but something else as well — alternative seating. “Alternative or flexible seating is not the traditional classroom chair,” Rose said.