PBC-DIDM Effort & Effect Cascade
What is the PBC-DIDM Effort & Effect Cascade?
The Cascade is a framework for understanding how efforts at different levels of implementation (i.e., leadership, coaches, practitioners, and families) have an effect on outcomes at another level (e.g., the effects of Coach efforts on Practitioners’ use of effective practices). The Cascade supports key stakeholders in identifying how data about their efforts and effects are connected.
Why is the PBC-DIDM Effort & Effect Cascade important?
The Cascade helps individuals within the program to consider their role in PBC-DIDM. It can show how people’s individual and collective efforts can promote positive outcomes or effects for coaches, practitioners, children, and their families.
When the Leadership Team is established, the Cascade framework can help the team consider whether they have included various points of view that represent the roles within the professional learning and practice-based coaching initiatives in the program. The Cascade also informs discussions about existing Sources of Effort and Effect Data and when to collect additional or different sources of data to make data-informed decisions.
How can we use this information in our program?
Use this module to learn more about the PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade, including how to use the Cascade as a framework for seeing how to connect efforts and effects at different levels of implementation within your program.
When engaging with the Cascade, it may be helpful to have your PBC-DIDM Data Mapping Tool and your program’s professional learning calendar readily available.
What PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade resources are available?
See an example of how one program used the PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade to make data-informed decisions about coach caseloads and support in this 60-minute webinar presented in collaboration with the Office of Head Start for the Coaching Corner Series.
Download fillable PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade Handouts below to help your program reflect on how efforts and effects across different levels of implementation (e.g., leaders, coaches, practitioners) are connected.
Visit the Resource Library and filter the Parts of the PBC-DIDM Model to view all the PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade resources.
Watch this 7-minute presentation from the 2022 Office of Special Education Programs Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference, where members of the PBC-DIDM team describe the PBC-DIDM Effort and Effect Cascade.
What resources are available?
Learn how to identify, collect, and use Sources of Effort and Effect Data within your program aligned with different levels of implementation shown in the Cascade (e.g., leaders, coaches, practitioners).
Consider how the Cascade might be used in Leadership Team Meetings, Coach Community Meetings, or PBC Cycles by learning more about how these groups support the implementation of PBC-DIDM and the parts of the Cascade.
