PITTSFIELD, Mass. — It might be summer, but kids can learn something new every day of the year. It’s the idea behind Pittsfield’s Corazonidos Community School summer sessions.

“It’s really similar to Montessori school and whole-child curriculums,” Nicole Fecteau said, one of the school’s facilitators. “So children can kind of gravitate toward what they really love.”

The school is a collaboration of several community organizations. They host a few pop-up sessions at various city parks each week. Each session has many opportunities for hands-on-learning for kids to choose from.

“We have a table just for art, which is over here, where people just paint and they create murals together,” Fecteau said, pointing out all the different stations. “We have our garden over here, which is growing with the youth in the urban garden. There’s a table just for books. We have a table for science and math.”

It’s totally up to the kids to decide which activities to take part in. By allowing kids to choose what interests them, they hope to increase engagement and encourage their sense of discovery.

“Education should be fun, it should be interesting, it should be a quest,” Kristina Cardot said, another of the school’s facilitators. “‘Oh, you like science, okay cool, let’s do more of that.’”

This is the third year of the summer sessions, and starting this fall, they’ll be running a pilot program in the Morningside and Crosby elementary schools.

The goal of that program will be to provide a safe space for students to decompress during the school day.

“It’s a way to relax and feel like maybe they can start talking about things that are bothering them,” Fecteau said. “So that’s our goal and we’re very excited about not just having our summer sessions but also being there in the school year.”