ALBANY HIGH TAKES TEAM APPROACH.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Albany Nikita Cobb spends most of her school day with the same group of about 20 kids, rather than switching classes throughout the day. -

``Sometimes it's fun, sometimes the boys get on my nerves,'' said Cobb, 15, a freshman at Albany High.

Her teachers, though, are convinced that this approach will help her and some 85 other freshmen who have been assigned to ``teams'' that attend classes together and are taught by the same teachers.

Middle schools, including Albany's Hackett and Livingston, have been using teams for years and now high schools are embracing the concept.

It's viewed as a way of easing the …