Phishing remains one of the most common and developing threats in the cyberspace domain, as it relies on social engineering to convince people to help attackers by providing very sensitive information including usernames and passwords, as well as sensitive financial or institutional information. Frequently, phishing attacks take advantage of human psychological triggers such as urgency, authority, and fear, creating the weakest link in cybersecurity protection as human users are targeted. While a large amount of research has focused on phishing awareness and education in corporate and financial settings, there is very little available with regard to education and therefore the individual educator. This is a major oversight, as educators are now routinely responsible for multiple data and sensitive data like student data, academic data and institutional access credentials. Therefore, improving educator cybersecurity awareness at the institutional level is important for a greater institutional information security goal. This research aims to fill this gap by creating a conceptual framework and experimental approach to increase phishing awareness among educators. This framework is grounded by Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), a common psychological theory utilized to provide insight into how an individual is motivated to protect oneself from perceived threats. PMT uses two appraisal processes: threat appraisal (perceived severity and vulnerability) and coping appraisal (response efficacy, self-efficacy, and response costs). The goal of this research project is to investigate cognitive and emotional responses to threats of phishing and how they impact educator's behavioural intention to recognize and report phishing incidents. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed awareness intervention, the study will employ a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design with an intervention group and a control group. The intervention will be interactive, scenario-based phishing awareness training that will provide a real-world phishing scenarios and allow participants to actively engage in various practical exercises, quizzes, and a feedback loop.  Participant’s phishing awareness levels and behavioural intentions will be measured pre- and post-intervention using validated survey instruments based on PMT constructs. The control group will not receive any training during the experimental phase which will allow for the outcomes to be compared.