"It doesn't look like a typical high school classroom, and that's because it isn't.
The Stall High School classroom with the ball chairs and laptops is home to the school's Star Academy, a place where students who are behind can complete eighth and ninth grades in one year. They use the laptops for individualized lessons at their own pace, and the ball chairs allow them more movement than stiff, plastic ones.
'We're trying to meet the needs of nontraditional kids in a nontraditional way because a traditional setting hasn't worked for these kids,' said Anna Dassing, one of the school's assistant principals and director of the Star Academy."
The Stall High School classroom with the ball chairs and laptops is home to the school's Star Academy, a place where students who are behind can complete eighth and ninth grades in one year. They use the laptops for individualized lessons at their own pace, and the ball chairs allow them more movement than stiff, plastic ones.
'We're trying to meet the needs of nontraditional kids in a nontraditional way because a traditional setting hasn't worked for these kids,' said Anna Dassing, one of the school's assistant principals and director of the Star Academy."