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Source: Light, N. (2016, November 11). Wobble chairs, bouncy balls let students wiggle while they work. The Dallas Morning News . Retrieved from https://newsela.com/articles/wobble-chairs/id/23767/ What is Sacred: I don't know about sacred, but this article is about flexible seating, specifically using seating options other than the traditional chair or desk with table that some of the high schools still use. Instead, at about $70/chair, teachers are bringing in these wobble chairs. The article is about why they do that and what the results are. 1. It's not for every child, so if you got rid of all of your old chairs or stools, retrieve them back 2. It does help as a differentiation strategy for some students who need to fidget to think Connections to my Current/Future Work: I observed this particular chair at one of the Hawaii elementary schools. I was doing a lesson observation of one of my students and at the back of the room, there was one child with this chair. ...