Applications for Education
Altering your Google account profile image can assist with name recognition so that parents start to put a face with a name as soon as they begin receiving e-mails from you. They wont have to wait until the first parent-teacher conference or open house night to make the association in between your face and name.
If you have more than one instructor in your district with the exact same name or comparable names (at one point there were 3 Mr. Burns and a Mr. Byrne in my district) students seeing an e-mail with your profile photo can aesthetically verify that they are emailing the right person.

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

When your school problems you a Google Workspaces for Education account your profile image will simply be a basic letter icon including your initials. Lots of people leave it that method only because they do not understand how simple it is to alter it. In the video below I demonstrate
how to change your Google profile image.