Sustainable leadership practices among principals in TS25 excellent secondary schools

Abstract

The Ministry of Education’s makes intensive plans and puts forth tremendous efforts to improve the academic and extracurricular performance of students by implementing The School Transformation Programme 2025. One of the goals are seen through crucial components is strengthening school leadership. How far do the principals practice sustainable leadership to meet the demands of the TS25 program? The main focus of this research is to examine how teachers at Excellent Secondary Schools rate their principals' implementation of the TS25 based on Seven-factor Sustainable Leadership Theory developed by Hargreaves and Fink. A total of 404 educators from 10 premier secondary schools in the Southern Zone of Peninsular Malaysia participated. Data were collected using a 6-point Likert-scale questionnaire, with responses analyzed via descriptive statistics. Findings indicate three items which are ‘Promote diversity of knowledge and experience sharing among members of the organization (M = 5.080, SD = 0.889), Focus on progress of the school around (M=5.122, SD=0.753), Develop and share leadership to others (M=5.080, SD= 0.808) were rated Very High Level on the school principals in demonstrate a strong practice in sustainable leadership. Thus, it is hoping that this research will contribute significantly to assist improving academic performance as part of TS25, Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013–2025, and the Malaysia Development Programme 2030 and beyond.