'Read Like Me' aims to create more Black male teachers through reading to youth. Author: January Keaton Updated: 6:31 PM EST March 2, 2021 CLEVELAND — On this Read Across America Day, we meet Sara Kidner, the principal at John Marshall School of Civic & Business Leadership in Cleveland. She's also the winner of this year's Accelerate 2021 competition. Sara received $5,000 to help fund a literacy program she pitched called "Read Like Me." More than 30 civic visions were pitched as part of the "Accelerate 2021: Citizens Make Change" civic pitch competition. Seven ideas received funding to help bring them to life, and Sara won the grand prize with Read Like Me, which aims to recruit young Black males to read to younger children. The long term goal is for those males to become teachers as a career.