Warren Marcus
Director, Teacher Workshops and Conferences
U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington D.C.
20024 USA
http://www.ushmm.org

Warren Marcus is the Director of Teacher Workshops and Conferences in the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Mr. Marcus annually organizes and presents teacher workshops for up to 500 teachers around the nation (in numerous states recently including Alaska, Idaho, Alabama, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Illinois) and in Washington, D.C. An online version of his workshops can be found on the Museum website http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/ He has directed the Belfer National Conferences for Teachers at the Museum from 1997 to the present, and he was the lead instructor for 200 high school teachers at the Conferences in 1995 and 1996. He also represents the Museum at educational conferences. Mr. Marcus coordinated the Baltimore Project from 1994-1998, a privately funded grant that brought students from the Baltimore City public schools to the Museum and provided resources and training to schools and educators. Before joining the Education Division full-time in 1994, Mr. Marcus worked as an educational consultant for two summers for the Division. He taught middle and high school for seventeen years, also serving in a variety of administrative positions, including two department chair positions. Mr. Marcus was a national finalist for Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 1992 in The Disney Channel Salutes the American Teacher Awards Program, and in 2001 and 2002 he was a national judge for the program. He participated in a summer study program in Israel for teachers of the Holocaust in 1989 and in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Teachers on "Literature of the Holocaust" in 1988. He is a graduate of Brown University and received a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University.

Warren will demonstrate Belfer Exemplary Lessons for Holocaust Education.