Jeff Barber attended Piedmont High School and then graduated from Jacksonville State University. Although he did not always know he wanted to be a teacher, he has been teaching for five years, as of 2017.

Mr. Barber’s passion for teaching comes from his love of history and teaching it to students. He is also inspired by his wife who teaches elementary students. Mr. Barber has four children: Dalton, Jackson, Gracie,  and Mary Claire. A favorite quote of his, first said by Abraham Lincoln, is "Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is, and the tree is the real thing.”