(Free) Montessori Colloquium: The Prepared Adult as Environment: Dignity, Diversity, and the Discipline of Deference in the Montessori Community with Regina Dyson!
2026-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us on Tuesday, June 16th, at 7:00 p.m. ET for an exciting webinar on “The Prepared Adult as Environment: Dignity, Diversity, and the Discipline of Deference in the Montessori Community” with Regina Dyson!
Event Description:
What if equity, access, and belonging are not outcomes we pursue—but conditions we create? This symposium invites educators, leaders, and practitioners into a deeper inquiry: How do our daily interactions, structures, and decisions shape whether dignity is protected, difference is honored, and voice is shared? Moving beyond individual character and into collective responsibility, this experience reframes dignity as a cultural practice—one that is enacted clearly, consistently, and carefully across adult communities. Through dialogue, reflection, and real-world application, participants will explore: How dignity, diversity, and deference function as a continuum—not isolated ideas. The conditions that cultivate or compromise equity, access, and belonging. Practical shifts in language, structure, and leadership that make these values lived realities. This is not a session about ideals. It is an invitation into discipline, design, and daily practice—where the prepared adult becomes the environment.
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About Regina Dyson:
Regina Dyson is a lifelong educator, organizer, and advocate whose 35-year journey has been rooted in community, justice, and Montessori education. She discovered Montessori in 1992 at an Afro-centered school in Atlanta, an experience that shaped her commitment to creating learning environments where freedom, dignity, and belonging are central. Over the years, Regina has worn many hats—Executive Director, HOS, classroom assistant, afterschool coordinator, summer camp co-director, consultant, and developmental coach—each role deepening her expertise in organizational transition, curriculum design, parent partnership, and community building. Today, she serves as Board Chair of Montessori for Social Justice and works closely with schools and organizations as instructional and admin coach, program development and capacity-building. Passionate about justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (JEDIB), Regina works to advance intergenerational coalition building, restorative justice, adolescent leadership, cooperative enterprise, and environmental stewardship—always centering the power of education to transform lives and communities. She is also a parent of three, ages 31, 25 and 19 and now GiGi to a grandson!

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