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 dont know how simple it is to alter it, numerous individuals leave it that method only. In the video below I show
how to alter your Google profile image.

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

Applications for Education
Changing your Google account profile image can aid with name acknowledgment so that parents begin to put a confront with a name as quickly as they begin getting emails from you. They will not need to wait till the first parent-teacher conference or open house night to make the association between your face and name.
If you have more than one instructor 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) students seeing an e-mail with your profile photo can visually confirm that they are emailing the right individual.