Manuel Hernandez

Orlando, Florida Area United States

Author/Motivational Speaker/ Performance Coach

Education

As an ESL teacher in New York City, educator and author Manuel Hernandez saw that multicultural students wanted to learn, but classroom materials weren’t relatable to their own cultural experience. Hernandez learned of the significant difference in the classroom when culturally relevant materials were introduced into the learning experience and how we all can benefit. This has been his lifelong quest. Early in his career as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher in New York City, he had many students recently arrived from Latin American countries. He was tasked to teach these 10th graders, many who had been in the U.S. less than two years, the works of Hemingway, Poe and Shakespear...