Working with Schools

“I want to thank Merry Beth Hall, and the ICPI team up and down the ladder deserve many more thanks than I can give. ICPI was first to offer support and resources for helping faculty and educators fill the gaps in the rapid rollout of online education across the US & CA.”

Tim Marten State University of New York

Academic Use of Concrete Paver Installer Course

To date, 91 instructors representing 31 postsecondary schools, 41 high schools, and 1 federal prison have participated in ICPI’s Academic Instructor Training course. Courses have been held in Chantilly VA, Boston MA, Toronto ON, Sacramento CA, Pittsburgh PA, and Indianapolis IN. An online course was offered in April 2020, with instructors completing the online CPI course and attending a virtual session with staff. In order to license the Concrete Paver Installer Course, instructors must complete the course (at no cost) and sign a license agreement.

Staff contacted all academic licensees to offer the temporary use of the recorded CPI modules for the rapid shift to online instruction that occurred in March. Several schools took advantage of this opportunity including SUNY – Cobleskill, whose instructor Tim Marten wrote ICPI’s assistance and support for educators went beyond my expectations of an allied trade association.”

The current map of academic instructor locations follows. The addition of the online version of this training course allows ICPI to expand the range of the instructor training where there is interest without limiting ourselves to one location and set of dates.

For FY21, ICPI staff will be focusing on better engaging the existing academic instructors and helping to connect them with the support needed to teach the CPI course with practical labs at their schools.

Campaign Results

Since October, ICPI and NCMA have been advertising the @hardscapingis campaign on Facebook and Instagram.

In FY20, the @hardscapingis campaign on Facebook and Instagram reached 1.13 million people and generated approximately 500 followers on Facebook and 3,000 followers on Instagram.

Workforce Development Team members have access to the following items for promoting hardscaping careers in their community:

• Parent Download Kit – can be repurposed as a handout for career fairs

• Career Path brochure and flyer

• What Kind of Hardscaping Professional Should You

Be? Quiz is available online.

• @Hardscapingis videos

• ICPI Workforce Development Video