The recipient of the 2024 NASS Excellence in Small School District Leadership award, Dr. Al Lewis has a proven track record of principled servant-leadership and bettering the lives of children across New Jersey. Throughout his career, Dr. Lewis has put students first, created people-centered work environments, protected teachers’ instructional time, and facilitated innovation through job-embedded professional development. Throughout his career in education, Dr. Lewis has put students first, created people-centered work environments, protected teachers’ instructional time, and facilitated innovation through job-embedded professional development. Dr. Lewis led many initiatives, such as creating future-forward, career-ready technology electives. His leadership and expertise were central to modernizing an aging program, training staff in new content and instructional methods, and securing funding that was needed to purchase innovative equipment. The crowning achievement of Dr. Lewis’s time in Gloucester Township was his creation of a Summer STEAM Camp that served the district’s historically underrepresented students at no cost to the local taxpayers. Dr. Lewis was honored to be named Superintendent of Weymouth Township School District on July 1, 2022. He is the servant-leader of all district employees and is the steward of a multimillion dollar school budget partially comprised of the community’s hard-earned tax dollars.