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School rituals are a powerful means to both create and perpetuate school culture. They can help distinguish your community from others and imprint students for years to come. School leaders are well-served to shape rituals that not only energize students and faculty but also reinforce their best selves.
- These are the rituals which function so as to bind together all members of the school, staff and pupils as a moral community, as a distinct collectivity. These consensual rituals give the school continuity in time and place. They recreate the past in the present and project it into the future.
- But rituals go further than helping us to live out our values. They may also make us less anxious. Ritualistic practices can help to bring a degree of predictability to an uncertain future. They convince our brains of constancy and predictability ritual buffers against uncertainty and anxiety"