Abstract

• The primary purpose of this study is to study sustainable leadership practices of principals. By using purposive sampling, 30 principals and a total of 399 teachers from Basic Education High Schools in Four Townships of Hinthada District in Ayeyarwaddy Region were selected as the participants. Two sets of questionnaire and open-ended questions were used to collect the required data. The internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of the questionnaire for principals’ practices was (0.96). Descriptive research method was used to tabulate the mean values and standard deviations for groups of items. Moreover, Independent Samples t-Test, One-way ANOVA and post-hoc test by Tukey were used for the analysis of the data. The results found that the extent of principals’ sustainable practices was 3.46. According to the mean value, all principals participated in this study were found that sometimes practiced on principals’ sustainable leadership practices. Statistically significant differences were found in some areas of sustainable leadership practices according to their personal factors perceived by teachers. When investigating the levels of sustainable leadership practices of principals according to the qualitative findings, it was found that the principals performed in sustainable leadership practices according their responses.