Megan Welch is the Associate Manager of Rater Training in the Language Assessment Division at CAL, developing scoring materials for the Speaking and Writing domains of the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs and Kindergarten ACCESS for ELLs assessments. She joined CAL in 2023 as a Language Testing Specialist, developing test content for all domains with a focus on the lower grades.

Before coming to CAL, Megan worked as an elementary ML teacher and language acquisition coach in Massachusetts and taught English in Rayong province, Thailand. She holds a M.Ed. in English as a Second Language PreK-6 from Merrimack College and a B.A. in Communication from Chestnut Hill College. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, yoga, writing, and reading books in hammocks.