{"id":440673,"date":"2026-09-19T04:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440673\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:28:12","slug":"guidepost-montessori-schools-rebrand-as-illuminate-montessori-lake-travis-westlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440673\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidepost Montessori schools rebrand as Illuminate Montessori | Lake Travis &#8211; Westlake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidepost Montessori schools officially rebranded as <a href=\"www.illuminatemontessori.com\">Illuminate Montessori<\/a> in September 2026, after their parent company, GGE, filed for bankruptcy in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>In fall of 2025, TNC Schools acquired 18 Guidepost Montessori schools, including five in the Austin area.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the acquisition, TNC Schools had plans to rebrand the schools as Illuminate Montessori, yet the schools were contractually required to continue using the Guidepost name for a number of months, Mongoshua Ball, head of school at Illuminate Montessori in Westlake, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sept. 1, the schools officially rebranded to Illuminate Montessori.<\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to the Montessori philosophy or teaching approaches, Ball said.<\/p>\n<p>What else<\/p>\n<p>Illuminate Montessori has plans to open a training center in Cedar Park that will provide employees the opportunity to earn American Montessori Society certification.<\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming school year, the company will be adding three new elementary programs, some to the Austin area locations.<\/p>\n<p>Rebranded September 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bee Cave: 14058 Bee Cave Parkway, Bldg. C, Austin<\/p>\n<p>Westlake: 4613-B Bee Cave Road, West Lake Hills<\/p>\n<p>Round Rock: 7210 Wyoming Springs Drive, Round Rock<\/p>\n<p>Cedar Park: 2006 Sun Chase Blvd, Cedar Park and 3017 Polar Lane, Cedar Park<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminatemontessori.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">www.illuminatemontessori.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guidepost Montessori schools officially rebranded as Illuminate Montessori in September 2026, after their parent company, GGE, filed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,7600,2536,152493,152491,152490,6240,152492,20785],"class_list":["post-440673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bee-cave","tag-cedar-park","tag-gge","tag-guidepost-montessori","tag-illuminate-montessori","tag-round-rock","tag-tnc-schools","tag-westlake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}