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❄️🔥 From Frost to Fire:
The Secret Sauce Society Winter Warm-Up
Turn cold routines into hot strategies for gifted learners.
Four flavorful episodes. Six hours of PD. Endless spark.
🍲 Episode 1: The Sad Sauce
Let’s be honest, teaching gifted kids can be equal parts magic and mayhem. In this opening session, we’ll stir together the real ingredients of teacher fatigue, frustration, and February “meh” to uncover what’s actually simmering beneath the surface.
You’ll learn how to name what’s draining your spark, remix it with empathy and humor, and start crafting a new recipe for joy.
🌶 Episode 2: The Boredom Busters Lab
When gifted learners say, “I already know this,” what they often mean is, “Challenge me differently.” This hands-on lab is all about turning boredom into brilliance.
Explore quick, high-impact strategies to stretch thinking, deepen curiosity, and differentiate without doubling your workload. We’ll test curiosity triggers, remix enrichment ideas, and build a “Boredom First-Aid Kit” to take back to your classroom.
🎶 Episode 3: Joy Jams & Wonder Workouts
It’s time to turn up the music and move from frozen to flowing! In this energizing mid-series jam session, we’ll explore how joy fuels learning and how to create moments of wonder even when the system feels cold and rigid.
Through playful puzzles, curiosity workouts, and creative challenges, you’ll experience first-hand how to reawaken engagement in both you and your students.
📝 Episode 4: From Survival to Sauce-vival – The Remix
You’ve named the gripe, busted the boredom, and reignited the joy. Now it’s time to turn up the heat for good!
In our grand finale, we’ll remix everything you’ve learned into a personalized Differentiation Survival Guide filled with strategies, reflections, and next steps.
Celebrate your transformation from Frost to Fire as we close with connection, creativity, and a community of spicy new ideas.
🌟 The Details
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Four Sessions = Six Hours of PDÂ
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February 3 • 12 • 17 • 26
7PM ET / 6PM CT / 5PM MT / 4PM PT -
Live + On-Demand Replay
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Hosted by Stephanie Higgs, Brian Housand, Andi McNair,  and Justin Mitchell Â
🌟 The Cost
Register before December 13, 2025 = $100
Register after December 13, 2025 = $125
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Why This Matters...Â
February hits hard.
The days are short, the energy is low, and classrooms often slide into autopilot. Add the unique challenge of gifted learners who already know the content or who are bored stiff with more of the same.
Suddenly apathy is everywhere.
But here’s the truth:
👉 You don’t have to do more to meet their needs.
👉 You have to do different.
This 4-part professional learning feast is your roadmap to differentiation that doesn’t drain you. The Secret Sauce Society is serving up practical, sustainable strategies that level up learning for gifted kids while keeping you energized.
Meet Your Chefs 🍽️
The Secret Sauce Society is not your typical PD provider. We are Stephanie Higgs, Brian Housand, Andi McNair,  and Justin Mitchell — four educators blending our unique flavors into one mission:
The Secret Sauce Society exists to transform professional learning into an experience that fuels curiosity, creativity, and joy. We help educators move beyond burnout by rediscovering their spark, reigniting student engagement, and finding practical ways to do different — not more.
THE SECRET SAUCE SOCIETY
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