David I. Steinberg,
Montgomery County Public Schools, is the principal of Colonel Zadok Magruder High School. He began his career in education in 1976, as a high school special education teacher at the Leary School of Virginia in Alexandria. After his tenure at Leary, he taught music and special education in the District of Columbia at the Kingsbury Lab School for two years. From 1980 to 1982, Dr. Steinberg was a special education teacher at Thomas Stone Elementary School in Mount Rainier, Md. After two years at Thomas Stone, he went abroad and was a K-12 resource teacher at the International School of Dusseldorf in Germany. In 1984, he returned to the United States and joined Montgomery County Public Schools as a sixth grade teacher at Brown Station Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md. Four years later, in 1988, he became a Title I teacher specialist for Montgomery County Public Schools, a position he held for two years. From 1990 to 1991, he served as a principal intern at Lakewood Elementary School in Rockville, Md. In 1991, Dr. Steinberg was promoted to principal of Rosemont Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md. He then became principal of Gaithersburg Middle School in Maryland, in 1993, before assuming his current position in 2000. Dr. Steinberg holds a BS degree in political science and history from the State University of New York at Brockport, an MEd degree in special education from American University in Washington, D.C., and a PhD degree in administration and supervision from the University of Maryland in College Park.