150 students at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, DC have engaged the Harvard Model for creating a culture of thinking. This Tishman, Perkins, and Jay framework introduced them to four forces of enculturation and six dimensions of a thinking classroom in combination with African American Literature and Future Studies as specific instances of culturally responsive pedagogy. Also, the project served as a prototype for a much larger application to several public schools in the district in collaboration with the District of Columbia Area Writing Project at Howard University.