FW: Daily Briefing: USD 501 installing standing desks as alternative for fidgety students

 

 

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Subject: Daily Briefing: USD 501 installing standing desks as alternative for fidgety students

 

Standing desks being installed at Topeka schools help some students who have trouble staying still while seated at a traditional desk.

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USD 501 installing standing desks as alternative for fidgety students

 

Having the ability to doodle on the dry-erase top of her standing desk is one aspect Ross Elementary fourth grader Eve Socia shows off the desk within her classroom Friday.

 

Standing desks being installed at Topeka schools help some students who have trouble staying still while seated at a traditional desk.

 

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Before she was an intrepid photographer, before she trekked the world, before she was an angel investor — she was Susan Gresham, and she was a Scot.

 

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