Donna Castle Richardson, Ed.D.
Donna Castle Richardson, Ed.D. serves as the CEO of Educational Dynamics, LLC. She previously served as the Director of the Central Comprehensive Center, one of 15 Comprehensive Centers providing technical assistance with funding from the United States Department of Education through the University of Oklahoma. She also served as the Director of EDUTAS at OU. She is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education at Oklahoma City University (OCU) where she designed and directed the teacher certification program in Early Childhood and directed the Elementary Education. She taught courses in early childhood education, curriculum, children’s literature, emergent literacy, and reading development. She mentored teachers during their first year of teaching.
She has developed a Reading with Children Series for parent, grandparents, and early childhood educators that focus on informing parents, grandparents, and early childhood educators on how to create a stimulating learning environment for children during the early years. Her Activities & Ideas for Enhancing Young Children’s Language won the 2022 Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc 2022 Published Book – Non-Fiction award. The series has two additional adult handbooks Teaching Your Child to Read Naturally Parenting Handbook and Teaching Alphabet Letters and Sounds with Meaning. To complete the series, she wrote three children’s books to assist adults in how to read using interactive reading techniques to young children reading strategies and letters and sounds in context. Three of the author’s children’s books, The Teeny Tiny Tadpole, Little Lilly Ladybug, and Birds Being Birds, serve as companions to the parenting handbooks to give young children a head start in reading.
Dr. Richardson’s interest in family literacy research, early reading, children’s literature, language development, and school improvement led to national recognition. She evaluated the Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Even Start project in which her research and the project design was validated by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Diffusion Network and awarded a National Dissemination Grant to fund national dissemination. Her Reading Discovery Tutor Training program was highlighted as one of ten programs featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s best practices document So That Every Child Can Read…America Reads Community and Tutoring Projects.
Donna is married to Don Ray Richardson. Their home is in Edmond, Oklahoma. They have two married children and five grandchildren who live in Denver, Colorado.
