Applications for Education
Changing your Google account profile image can assist with name recognition so that moms and dads start to put a face with a name as soon as they start getting emails from you. They will not have to wait until the first parent-teacher conference or open home night to make the association in between your face and name.
If you have more than one instructor in your district with the very same name or similar names (at one point there were three Mr. Burns and a Mr. Byrne in my district) students seeing an email with your profile image can visually validate that they are emailing the correct individual.

On a related note, a lot of individuals do not recognize that there is a difference between finalizing into a Chrome profile and finalizing into a Google account. I explained the distinction in
this short video..

When your school issues you a Google Workspaces for Education account your profile photo will simply be an easy letter icon featuring your initials. Since they do not understand how simple it is to alter it, many people leave it that method just. In the video below I demonstrate
how to change your Google profile image.