Applications for Education
Changing your Google account profile image can assist with name acknowledgment so that moms and dads begin to put a face with a name as quickly as they start receiving e-mails from you. They will not have to wait until the very first parent-teacher conference or open home night to make the association in between your face and name.
If you have more than one teacher in your district with the same name or comparable names (at one point there were three Mr. Burns and a Mr. Byrne in my district) trainees seeing an email with your profile photo can visually validate that they are emailing the right person.

When your school concerns you a Google Workspaces for Education account your profile image will just be an easy letter icon including your initials. Since they dont know how easy it is to change it, lots of people leave it that way only. In the video below I show
how to change your Google profile image.

On a related note, a lot of people dont recognize that there is a distinction in between signing into a Chrome profile and signing into a Google account. I described the difference in
this short video..