As U.S. school leaders anticipate the end of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds and contemplate possible budget shortfalls, they will have to make hard choices about how best to leverage limited resources to improve student outcomes. With the stakes high, lawmakers and experts urge school system leaders to rely on research and program evaluation to guide decisions. Unfortunately, high-quality research that demonstrates positive outcomes and aligns with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) evidence standards (U.S. Department of Education, 2023) is rare for many types of educational interventions, including professional learning. This article examines how practical evaluation is timely, uses accessible data collection methods, produces results that are easy for stakeholders to understand, and yet uses methods that go beyond pre-post comparisons so stakeholders can make inferences about what contribution an intervention may have had to an outcome.