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A major commitment of the Holocaust Museum Houston is the educational program.

This program comprises a teacher program, a student program and an academic program.

The teacher program encourages and helps teachers to incorporate the topic " Holocaust " into their classes.

The museum ’ s " Curriculum Trunks Program ," which is available for teachers throughout the country, gives teachers of all grades multi-media tools such as videos, posters, CDs, CD-ROMS, artifact kits, maps, classroom sets of books, lessons plans and plans for student activities so that classes are as informative as possible.

Teachers may also receive in training on the Holocaust.

Training may be related to the curriculum trunks or they may be general workshops.

Furthermore, the museum offers contests for students, such as the annual “ Yom HaShoah Art and Writing Contest ,” as part of their student program.