Revision Education was co-founded by Regina Kruglyak and Anna Santoleri. They met teaching at High Tech High Chula Vista, a project-based high school in Southern San Diego, where they founded and directed its Outdoor Leadership Training Club. In early 2021, they founded Revision Education to help answer the nation-wide call for increased accessibility and inclusivity in outdoor spaces, particularly in response to the racial reckoning of the summer of 2020, the youth mental health crisis resulting from the pandemic, and the ever growing climate crisis. The rest of the Revision Education Staff is composed of students and teachers who are committed to expanding opportunities for youth to get outside.
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Regina's Story
Regina was born in Ukraine, won the refugee lottery and immigrated to the US just months before the fall of the Soviet Union. She arrived the day before Halloween and as an 8-year-old thought that she had moved to the scariest place imaginable. After years of struggle, her family finally started figuring out how to survive in America and all soon learned English and found jobs. Regina graduated UCLA with a degree in engineering geology, but the biggest impact college had on her was through the Outdoor Leadership Training club she was a part of for nearly 10 years. It was during her time in the outdoors that she started healing and understanding the transformative powers of nature. It taught her valuable leadership skills and helped her find her calling in outdoor education.
During her time as an engineer she felt something was missing and began working internationally with a company that takes high school and college students on study abroad trips to the developing world. Her passion for teaching has always been stronger than her will to sit still at an office. While teaching physics Regina noticed how inspired her students became when doing any projects outside of the classroom. She began working on building tiny homes for the homeless community after research in equity on project based learning and that doing meaningful work would make students engage with science. Later, she started an Outdoor Leadership Training club at the school she worked at in Chula Vista. This club also proved to be transformational for her students. It inspired them to pursue professions related to the environment, it gave them the confidence to lead their peers, and, most importantly, it allowed them to heal.
During her time as an engineer she felt something was missing and began working internationally with a company that takes high school and college students on study abroad trips to the developing world. Her passion for teaching has always been stronger than her will to sit still at an office. While teaching physics Regina noticed how inspired her students became when doing any projects outside of the classroom. She began working on building tiny homes for the homeless community after research in equity on project based learning and that doing meaningful work would make students engage with science. Later, she started an Outdoor Leadership Training club at the school she worked at in Chula Vista. This club also proved to be transformational for her students. It inspired them to pursue professions related to the environment, it gave them the confidence to lead their peers, and, most importantly, it allowed them to heal.
Anna's Story
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Growing up in New York City, Anna didn’t discover the outdoors until college. There, she went on a freshman pre-orientation backpacking trip that changed the trajectory of her life. Participating then leading trips showed her the freedom of open and honest communication, the power she held even as a relatively small female, and the joy of being in close community with other people, all while being in the healing environment of the outdoors. Since then, she has worked as an outdoor and classroom educator, teaching ninth grade humanities, instructing outdoor and writing courses, leading conservation crews, teaching abroad, and directing free, student-led, afterschool outdoor programs. Outside of being an educator, she is an organizer for campaigns in fossil fuel divestment, wealth redistribution, and anti-racist education. She has a B.A. in History and Literature and an M.Ed., both from Harvard.
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