Calabasas High School adminstrator takes top job at A.E. Wright Middle School

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Steve Rosentsweig

Steve Rosentsweig

Calabasas High School adminstrator takes top job at A.E. Wright Middle School


He’s no stranger


Las Virgenes Unified School District has named Steve Rosentsweig as the new principal at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas.


The 55-year-old Rosentsweig replaces Mary Sistrunk, who took an assignment as the principal of the soon-to-be-built middle school in eastern Calabasas.


A resident of Woodland Hills, Rosentsweig spent the last 12 years as an assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Calabasas High School. He was a teacher and a dean at A.E. Wright for 16 years prior to that.


"I feel the same excitement tonight as the day I first found out I was going to be teaching at A.E. Wright," Rosentsweig told the Las Virgenes Board of Education at his appointment last week. "I’m excited about the opportunity."


Rosentsweig’s 34-year career in education also included a stint as a math specialist at an elementary school in Compton. This will be his first assignment as a school principal.


A.E. Wright currently has 1,700 students in classrooms built for about 1,200, but the sixth-, seventh- and possibly eighth-graders who live in the eastern part of Calabasas will be transferred to the new middle school in the fall of 2003, easing the crowded conditions that have plagued A.E. Wright in recent years.


Rosentsweig said he welcomes the challenges of his new job.


"As demands of students become more difficult, you have to make sure you meet their academic, social and emotional needs," he said.


Rosentsweig is married and has two grown children.


––John Loesing


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