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Principals, Deputy Principals & School Leadership Teams

Build a culture where your staff can thrive and stay for the long term. Support the leadership team behind it. Strengthen the people side of school performance.

Enhance your school’s professional development, leadership development, and staff culture work with behavioral and emotional intelligence assessments tailored for education settings. Teachers and school leaders are constantly asked to adapt and effectively manage others, often without considering the broader impact this can have on the individual.

Give them tools to better understand themselves and others, and create a shared language for how they teach, communicate, respond to stress and pressure, and lead. Turn that insight into stronger staff engagement, retention, and student outcomes.

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Who this is for

Principals, assistant and deputy principals, business managers, and school leadership teams across K-12 schools, including public, independent, faith-based, and international settings. Whether you’re working with a single leadership team or across a district or system, Team8 People’s education development programs are designed around the way schools operate and the people who work within them.

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K-12 Principals & Deputy Principals

Principals and deputy principals responsible for whole-staff development, leadership and teacher development, culture work, and professional development across their school.

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District & System Leaders

Superintendents, executive directors, school improvement leads, and system-wide administrators driving change across multiple multiple schools, sites, or districts.

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Business Managers & Operations Leaders

School business managers, operations leads, and executive teams responsible for staff development, retention, and school-wide capability building.

How Principals & School Leaders Partner With Team8 People

Benefit from a framework that strengthens the impact of your professional development, leadership development, and staff culture work. Help your teachers and leaders turn insight into action across five applied domains.

Staff Culture & Team Dynamics

Blend faculty and administrator DISC results to understand the behavioral shape of the wider group, explore communication preferences and differences, and identify predictable friction points. Build a shared language for how staff work, communicate, and support each other to perform effectively through times of change, pressure, and stress.

School Leadership Development & Succession Planning

Use the Team8 Leadership 360 or EI 360 with deputy principals, heads of school, and department leaders as part of leadership development or preparation for principal roles. Structured feedback from colleagues, managers, and other stakeholders can then be used to tailor individual development.

New Teacher Induction & Mentoring

Use TeacherDISC as part of induction programs for new and early-career teachers. Accelerate onboarding and integration into the faculty, give mentors a shared behavioral language for coaching conversations, and support stronger long-term retention.

Teacher Development & Professional Development

Use TeacherDISC to help teachers understand how they connect with students, work with colleagues, and lead within the classroom. Purpose-built for the school context and written in the language teachers use, it includes strategies that translate directly to teaching practice, classroom management, and parent engagement.

School Administrator & Leadership Team Development

Use Team8 DISC with school administrators, leaders, and non-teaching staff to build self-awareness and team awareness. Team8 DISC is business-focused, using language relevant to the day-to-day work of school operations and administration. Help your administrative staff build stronger working relationships and communicate more effectively with each other, teachers, and other school stakeholders.

Programs

Recommended Pathways for Principals & School Leaders

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Team8 People School & Teachers Programs

From individual teacher development and aspiring leader programs to school leadership team alignment and whole-school development, Team8 People offers tailored programs built around the education context and the day-to-day realities of school operations. Delivered by Team8 People facilitators, in person or virtually, programs can be integrated into professional development days, leadership off-sites, strategy days, or a longer-term capability-building plan across the school year.

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DISC Accreditation for Education Contexts

Accredit someone in-house to deliver DISC and embed its use more deeply across the school. Professional development coordinators, in-house mentors or facilitators, or a preferred external facilitator can be trained to apply DISC across staff meetings, professional development days, mentoring conversations, recruitment, and onboarding.

Depending on your school structure, DISC can also be integrated into student learning or athletics programs. Team8 People’s sport-specific DISC Profiles are included within DISC Accreditation, alongside Team8 DISC for students outside sport and TacticalDISC for relevant aviation, naval, and defense academies.

Team8 People’s DISC Accreditation for schools includes tailored one-on-one training, a package of DISC Profiles, full administration support, co-branding, and supporting facilitation and marketing resources, all with a practical focus on applying DISC in the school context.

What's Included
  • One-on-one training, tailored to your role and intended use, with a specific focus on DISC in sport
  • A package of DISC Assessments to get started
  • Training and facilitation materials, plus full ongoing mentoring support
  • Co-branded reports and account platform
  • Exclusive wholesale pricing
  • Administration and marketing support
  • Access to our Global Consultant Network to connect with others in your field
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Optional: Add Emotional Intelligence Accreditation to Your Program

Extend your leadership development capability by adding EI 360 Accreditation at the same time. Team8 People offers combined DISC & EI Accreditation, giving your school access to both behavioral and emotional intelligence tools. Use DISC for staff development, the EI 360 for emotional intelligence development, and the Team8 Leadership 360 for succession planning and individualized leadership development.

What's Included
  • Everything in the DISC Accreditation Program, plus these EI-specific additions:
  • Two extra training sessions to build EI into your program
  • A package of EI 360 Assessments
  • Specific EI 360 training and facilitation materials
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Sport Teams & Athletics Programs

For schools with high-performance sport or large athletics programs, extend the same behavioral framework into sport with Team8 People’s sport-specific DISC Profiles and tailored team programs. Help athletes better understand themselves and how they contribute, strengthen coach-athlete dynamics, and enhance team culture and performance.

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Sport Coach Development

Develop your sport coaches and, where relevant, sport staff alongside your teachers with tailored tools and development programs. Benefit from a program designed and delivered by someone with more than 30 years of experience in sport and coach development. Underpinned by CoachDISC, or Sports ManagerDISC for sport administrators, the program focuses on the interpersonal skills coaches need to understand to coach and lead others effectively.

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Tools & Assessments

Key Tools Designed for the School Context

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TeacherDISC Behavioral Profile (For Teachers)

TeacherDISC Behavioral Profile

Purpose-built for teachers, TeacherDISC focuses on how they connect with students, work with colleagues, handle classroom demands, and lead within the school. Use it in professional development days, mentoring, new-teacher recruitment and induction, and individualized development and support. Written in the language teachers use, with strategies that translate directly to their work, TeacherDISC helps teachers strengthen communication, student and stakeholder engagement, and awareness of the stressors that can contribute to burnout.
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Team8 DISC Behavioral Profile (For Leaders & Administrators)

Team8 DISC Behavioral Profile (For Leaders & Administrators)

Designed around business leadership and operational contexts, Team8 DISC can be used with school leadership teams, administrators, and non-teaching staff to build self-awareness and team awareness. When paired with TeacherDISC for teaching staff, the wider staff group gains a shared behavioral language that supports stronger working relationships, communication, and culture.
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Sport-Specific DISC Profiles for Sport Teams or Athletics Departments

Sport-Specific DISC Profiles for sport teams or athletics departments

Use a consistent framework and language across the school by extending DISC into sport Team8 People’s sport-specific Profiles. AthleteDISC (for athletes), CoachDISC (for Coaches), and Sports ManagerDISC (for sport administrators and support staff) use the same DISC model and report structure as Team8 DISC and TeacherDISC, with context-specific language for each role. Ideal for schools with a strong sport emphasis. Access to the sport-specific DISC range is included within DISC Accreditation, or the profiles can independently be used as part of tailored programs for teams, athlete leadership, or coach development.
Team8 Leadership Effectiveness 360 Review

Team8 Leadership 360

Team8 Leadership 360

Team8 Leadership 360 is a multi-rater leadership effectiveness review across eight critical leadership effectiveness skills. It is ideal for school leadership teams, including deputy principals, heads of school, department leaders, and aspiring leaders. Structured feedback from key peers and stakeholders provides clear, actionable development priorities.
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Team8 People EI 360 Report

EI 360

EI 360

An emotional intelligence 360 assessment combining self-perception with structured observer feedback across the four Elements and 18 Competencies of emotional intelligence. It supports school leaders in understanding how their emotional intelligence is experienced by others and identifying targeted development priorities. Sequenced after DISC, it provides a natural next stage of development for leaders working in the highly relational school environment.
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DISC AI Coach Functionality

DISC AI Coach Functionality

Included with the use of Team8 People’s DISC platform, the DISC AI Coach is a tailored, DISC-informed conversational coaching tool available to account administrators and those leading development programs. Use it to add context to individual or group results, prepare for coaching or development conversations, and explore how DISC can be applied to everyday school situations, from difficult parent conversations to adapting approaches for different students.
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Team8 People Additional Capabilities

Additional Reporting Capabilities

Additional Reporting Capabilities

Extend your DISC deployment with additional reports designed for whole-staff use. Access team wheel visualizations, faculty dynamic reports, working style pairings, one-page summaries, and more. All included with your school's use of DISC, with no surcharges or hidden fees.
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DISC Card Game

DISC Card Game

A tactile facilitation tool your leadership team can use in staff meetings, professional development days, or leadership retreats to extend the application of DISC. Teachers can also use it to introduce the concept and language of DISC to students. With dozens of ways to play, it can be incorporated into classroom icebreakers or more structured learning activities.
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Why Principals & School Leaders Choose Team8 People

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The TeacherDISC Profile wasn’t retrofitted from a workplace DISC assessment. It was written in the language teachers use, with applied strategies that translate directly to classroom management, staff collaboration, parent conversations, and school leadership. Spend less time translating business language into an education context and more time focusing on actionable takeaways your teachers can immediately put into practice.

Team8 People’s suite of assessments is underpinned by proven behavioral methodology combined with real-world experience. Built for K-12 classrooms, staff rooms, school leadership teams, and athletics departments, the assessments are used across public, independent, faith-based, and international schools worldwide.

One DISC Accreditation gives access to six DISC variants, allowing the same behavioral framework to be used with teachers, school leaders, business managers, athletes, coaches, board members, and other relevant groups across the school. The wider Team8 People assessment range also includes four 360 reviews and the EI 360 for leadership and development applications. One connected toolkit that can grow with your school rather than limiting it.

We genuinely value our relationship with our clients and believe our success lies in the success of your staff using our reports, which is why we’ll never surprise you with hidden fees or paywalls to access resources.

  • No annual reaccreditation, licensing, or hidden administration fees.
  • No paywall between you and the facilitation or training resources you need to actually use the assessments effectively.
  • No additional costs for supporting capabilities such as the Team Dynamic Report or the DISC AI Coach.

 

The only things you’ll pay for are the individual assessments you need, plus any supporting program or workshop engagements. Everything else is included as part of our service and support.

Hear from school leaders using Team8 People:

“We had a fabulous day and all staff in their feedback have been overwhelmingly positive about the experience. It has certainly assisted us in developing our ‘team’ building and care for each other in the workplace and has led to a great deal of conversation and deepening care for each other’s individual differences. Many are now transferring this knowledge to the different approaches we now need to take with the diverse ‘groupings’ of children in our care in our classrooms and some are keen to learn how to apply it more effectively to their teaching. I cannot fail to commend you on your approach to designing such a wonderful and fulfilling professional learning experience for us all at Winifred West Schools – thank you.”
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Kate ChauncyDirector of Teaching & Learning P-12, Winifred West Schools (Frensham and Gib Gate, Mittagong)
“The Team8 DISC and TeacherDISC Profiles have been extremely beneficial in promoting self-reflection among teachers and building relational leadership within our leadership team. Working with Team8 People revitalised our cohesion as a leadership team and helped us progress through the storming and norming phases of team building to a performing stage. As Principal, I valued the open and honest conversations generated by the DISC Profiles and subsequent capacity-building sessions with Team8 People staff.”
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Robert HarrisPrincipal, Bowen State High School

How To Get Started

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Inquire

Tell us about your school, leadership team, or where you’d like to strengthen your staff development, culture, or leadership work.

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Determine the Most Suitable Approach

Together, we’ll identify whether in-house DISC Accreditation, a tailored development program, or a combination of the two is the right pathway and how best to align it with your school calendar.

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Tailor the Approach & Begin Rollout

Whether you’re beginning the DISC Accreditation training or profiling a group ahead of a tailored workshop, our team coordinates the process around your key outcomes, structured around your school’s schedule.

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Ongoing Access & Support

Continue to access the full assessment range, supporting resources, additional reporting capabilities, and ongoing consultant and administration support.

Ready to bring Team8 People into your school?

Whether you’re leading whole-staff professional development, developing your leadership team, working through cultural change, or building capability across a district, Team8 People can help your teachers and leaders develop a shared language they can use in practice.

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Principals & School Leadership FAQs

How is TeacherDISC different from a workplace DISC assessment?

TeacherDISC was purpose-built for the school context, written in the language teachers use, with applied strategies for classroom management, staff collaboration, parent partnerships, and school leadership. It uses the same underlying DISC framework while applying it directly to the work teachers actually do.

Yes. TeacherDISC can be used across the whole teaching staff, for individual development, and within new-teacher recruitment and induction. For mixed staff groups, schools can use TeacherDISC with teaching staff and Team8 DISC with leaders, administrators, and non-teaching staff while retaining the same underlying behavioral framework. Volume pricing is available for whole-school and district deployments.

School leaders commonly use Team8 DISC for behavioral self-awareness and team development, the Team8 Leadership 360 for structured leadership feedback and development planning, and the EI 360 for emotional intelligence development. The right combination depends on the leadership group, development goals, and whether the work is focused on individual leaders, the wider leadership team, or succession planning.

Yes. TeacherDISC is used across K-12 public, independent, faith-based, and international schools worldwide, from elementary and primary through high school.

DISC Accreditation is delivered through one-on-one sessions spaced over time, allowing the person being accredited to apply the learning between sessions. Training can be scheduled around the school calendar and individual availability rather than requiring an intensive off-site block. The delivery schedule is agreed with you at the outset.

Talk to an Education Specialist on our team. Share what you’re working toward, and we’ll help map the right combination of assessments, accreditation, and program support for your school.